Just joined a table so very little information on the players. Villian is a young male with his hot GF sitting next to him. I've only seen one orbit and he's raised once preflop to $8 but took the pot in a flop continuation bet. I have no other information than that. Hero starts hand with $300 and villian has hero covered.

Hero dealt 3 3. Villian limps UTG+1. 2 other callers and Hero limps in. 6 players in hand.

Flop: A 3 Q

Villian leads out $6, one caller and hero raises to $31. Everyone folds and villian min raises to $62. What is hero's play here?

Raise pre. As played, wet board, he will probably continue with a lot of Ax and draws, there is some merit to calling but I would probably raise to 135 (or 124 if you want to be fancy) hoping he calls or jams.

I don't mind the overlimp pre looking to set mine. Personally, I mix it up between a raise pre and overlimp with small pairs in situations like this depending on villians and table.

In my experience, less than 1% of llsnl villians are capable of folding after 3betting a raise postflop. All in.

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Take him down, then take his smoke of a GF out.

Why raise pre? Doesn't seem to achieve much.

As for the flop. These are annoying spots. The problem in my experience if you call is that they bet like $20 on the turn and you have the same problem. Might be best to jam and hope he "puts you on a draw".

Build a pot, be the aggressor, widen your raising range, disguise your hand? That's good enough for me. It's hard to build a big pot when it's limped through. If you were in earlier position with TAGs/LAGS behind, I don't mind a limp, but in LP raise >> call IMO

I don't mind the overlimp in mid position, if I'm first in I usually raise or fold 33. As played I just get it in on the flop, he can have worse for value, AQ, AK, A3 spades, I'd probably just ship as it looks the most like a combo draw, If you flat you hate half the turns because they either out villain ahead or kill your action.

I don't like even thinking about raising pre. Primarily 'cause it's your 1st orbit. People don't like new players coming to the table & starting off by bullying the table. Establish a winning TAG image before even considering it. Plus, you need to know who's behind you & you don't know squat + you're in MP.

I highly doubt V limped with QQ/AA or even AQ. He o/r $8 earlier. I think worse case scenario is that he has T J. Then you have 75% equity going to the Turn. Milk him. $111 in pot - $7 rake is $104. Your $31 call is $135. Raise $70 on top. Monkey calls. Turn bricks. $240 in pot & you shove. End of story.
Or, you can pretend you have flush draw & just call his c/r OTF & if spade comes on the Turn, he'll try & milk you with his J or K hi flush & may give you correct odds to draw to your boat.

If he limped in with AA, oh freakin' well.

I ended up going all in, he snapped called with his set of aces. I know that he played the hand horribly but I was basically just wondering if pushing on the flop to his re-raise was a mistake.