I can't find the specific hand in my hand history, but I remember exactly how it went down.

3 handed cash game in 5NL ($0.02 / $0.05)

Button had about $6.51 in chips.
I had about $2.14
BB had about $1.69

Hero (SB): A A

Preflop:

Button calls for $0.05
Hero raises to $0.15
BB calls for $0.15
Button calls for $0.15

Flop:

7 K Q

Pot: $0.45

Hero bets $0.30
BB raises $0.60
Button folds
Hero calls for $0.30 more

Turn:

7 K Q 7

Pot: $1.65

Hero checks
BB shoves all in for $0.94
Hero calls

BB shows Q 7

River card is inconsequential and I lose the pot. Should I have folded on the flop or the turn? I didn't have much of a read given he was a newer player at the table, but he seemed to play fairly loose preflop.

Thanks for any help!

I would have raised bigger pre at least 4X
Possibly raised bigger flop
Chucked the lot in over his flop raise.

I'd get the fold much of the time.
I'd have been raking the pot in against AK and AQ some of the time.
Losing to sets and KQ a small abount of the time, although those hands should be played a bit slower in my opinion.

Overall, I believe you played it very well.

The pre-flop raise could've been 4xBB seeing that the button limped-3xBB is still fairly good though.

By nature, and at those stakes (players tend to play top pair w/weak kickers), I'd shove all-in after his flop raise.

What I like about your line is that he'd probably go all-in even if he didn't hit his kicker on the turn. He showed a tendency to try and get you off the hand on the flop, he probably would've tried it again on the turn after seeing you check.

In mixing it up, there would be times I'd play that hand like you did. On the turn, it is just one of those times where I'd call and just take one of those chances. Like you said, "fairly loose preflop." If they got me they got me.

I new as well and am learning with you. But here is what I have learned from the site:

2+2 says to raise 4xbb+1bb/limper. This would make your pre-flop raise $0.25.

If both bb and button called you would have a $0.75 pot. Leaving bb with the effective stack of $1.44.

You made a 2/3 pot bet which seems fine on this dry board. But if anyone calls you, you will need to re-evaluate quickly. Okay you make a $0.50 bet into a 0.75 pot. If bb calls, he has $0.94 behind to a $1.25 pot; making him committed.

I don't argue with your pre-flop bet. But even in your original situation, once he re-raised you he was committed. You have no read on him so you have to take his re-raise as the truth.

You could of been more aggressive pre-flop but since you were facing a bet from the button it's not really a problem. There's no way you could of folded on the flop and it's hard to do it on the turn, unless your opponent was playing extremely tight post-flop, but since he called your raise pre-flop with Q7o I'm guessing that he was pretty loose.

Things like that happen in poker and only experience will get you to get better at reading your opponents and what are their tendencies.

All I can say is that at the stakes your playing you shouldn't feel about how you played the hand. He shoved for 1/2 of the pot on the turn which is standard for TPTK (top pair top kicker), basically the only hands that had you beat on the flop were sets who upgraded to a full house or K7 and Q7. These situations will always happen in poker.

You were pot committed and he was pot committed before his all-in shove, so...

He's betting 94c into a 1.65$ pot... a little more than 1/2 of the pot, here you're facing the decision in which you have to think what hands are you beating... KJ, KQ, AK (unlikely) and what hands you're losing to KK (unlikely), QQ (unlikely), A7, K7, Q7, J7, T7, 97, 87, 76, 75, 47... There are very few hands that he can have where you've got the lead and there is no draws on the board. To make the call here you need to think that he's either bluffing or you have him beat 50% of the time, I don't know this player so I can't make a decision, but in order to get better at poker you need to get good at knowing your opponents.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmD9Boc7K7w

I'm no expert, but I think you played the hand pretty well. I guess what you could have done is re-raise all in at flop, seeing as the villain didn't have much left, but the call was OK too.. Nothing you could have done, it's poker and move on

pre-flop pretty standard