1/2NL game, Max buy in $300.

V1-UTG, Older player, tighter with about a stack of $500.
V2- UTG +1, Older player, somewhat loose so far with about a stack of $50.
Hero- BB, Young player, stack of $150 and sat down 40 minutes ago, tight image so far.

OTTH

V1 opens for $6, V2 re-raises to $18, Folds to Hero who looks down at A10s and flats. V1 calls. Pot is $55.

Flop is 1046r. Hero checks, V1 checks, V2 checks.

Turn is Qo. No flush draws available. Hero checks, V1 bets $35, V2 shoves in his remaining $30 or so.

At this point the pot is around $110 and we have $132 left facing V1's bet of $35.

Hero???

Fold preflop to the 3bet.

As played fold turn.

Fold pre

You should have bet the flop, you have top pair top kicker. You think V2 is folding $30 behind? Even if he does fold to a half pot flop bet, you take down a nice little pot.

You're letting them get there with AQ, KQ, KJ when you could have tried to isolate v2 on the flop.

Either that or fold to v2's pre flop raise. You're playing a weak ace out of position there's no need to call a 9x raise when clearly it means he's ahead of you pre flop with a stronger ace or pair. But since you did call, defend and isolate with top pair top kicker on the flop.

Fold pre, fold turn.

Even with the small sizing, you don't want to be calling a 3! with A10 suited, especially from the BB. The hand has some serious RIO, plus you're not very deep. You can save yourself a lot of headaches by just folding hands like this that can easily dominated, especially if you'll be out of position.

Honestly, with a 70-80bb stack, your range of hands that you're cold-calling a 3! from the blinds should pretty much be non-existent. If you normally play with a similar stack size, you can simplify things and make life a lot easier for yourself by either 4-betting or folding if you're facing a 3! and you're in the blinds. By forcing yourself to choose between those two options, it'll tighten up your range considerably from those positions, it'll keep you from being in tough spots post-flop where it's hard to know where you're at, and then when you do play a hand in this situation you'll be playing premium hands where you'll have an easy decision to GII PF or 4! then jam pretty much every flop. It just makes things easier all around and it'll keep you out of a lot of difficult post-flop situations that you shouldn't have found yourself in to begin with.

Hey guys thanks for the insight.

I agree I should have folded to a re-raiser who was EP with A10, especially considering I'm playing post flop OOP.

I've been playing well lately avoiding these spots, I pose the question because I was a little surprised by the result of the hand. Not being result oriented, just a little surprised.

Result:

Hero folds on turn. River is 10o, V1 wins with 99, V2 loses with A6.