Played this terrible, was the biggest mistake pre flop?

Slykllist

Player	Action	Cards	Amount	Pot	Balance
hugs1	Small blind		20.00	20.00	2110.00
gunney	Big blind		40.00	60.00	1255.00
	Your hole cards	Q K
buddiesr27	Fold
wasnmee	Call		40.00	100.00	1010.00
gazzaluf05	Raise		200.00	300.00	6717.50
Slykllist	Call		200.00	500.00	3305.00
hugs1	Fold
gunney	Fold
wasnmee	Call		160.00	660.00	850.00
Flop
		9 Q 2
wasnmee	Check
gazzaluf05	Bet		660.00	1320.00	6057.50
Slykllist	Raise		1320.00	2640.00	1985.00
wasnmee	Fold
gazzaluf05	All-in		6057.50	8697.50	0.00
Slykllist	All-in		1985.00	10682.50	0.00
gazzaluf05	Unmatched bet		3412.50	7270.00	3412.50
gazzaluf05	Show	A A
Slykllist	Show	Q K
Turn
		7
River
		7
gazzaluf05	Win	Two Pairs, Aces and 7s	7270.00		10682.50

Slykllist

Also, should I be folding to the shove on the flop?

The absolute worst hand I'm giving credit for when he shoves in AQ

hhyftrftdr

You're a waaaaay better player than me but I hate the flop min raise/call off. Don't think you're ever good when he goes back over the top.

Folding pre probably the best course of action, though wouldn't object to a modest raise to then fold to any resistance. Dangerous to get carried away with a potentially dominated hand.

DOHHHHHHH

Pre definitely isn't the biggest mistake.

Why raise the flop?

BorinLoner

I think pre-flop is fine to play the flop in position with a decent hand. Unless we have reason to think that this opponent is only raising a narrow range, then it's reasonable to think he can be isolating with a fairly wide range. Our KQ won't play too badly against a wide iso range, we're relatively deep and we have the button. Pre-flop seems fine in a vacuum.

Post-flop, I'm not sure why we're raising. Obviously we're not bluffing but why do we want to narrow our opponent's range when we're holding top-pair, good kicker? Raising just stops him in his tracks if he's holding any bluffs or most weaker value hands. We're basically hoping we can get it in against a QJ type hand but we're making him fold JJ or worse when he might put more money in on later streets. Obviously, if he has us beat we're making it really easy for him to stack us.

So we need to think about our opponent's range for raising pre-flop and firing full-pot on the flop. Then we need to ask which hands continue if we raise.

You haven't provided any information on this opponent but the full-pot bet on the flop is rarely weak. I'd probably be calling the flop and looking to control the size of the pot on later streets. If he wants to keep piling money in on the turn, we have to ask what that means for his range and how much of it we can beat.

GREGHOGG

Raising the flop is the mistake imo because you are only usually getting action from better hands. Flatting means u keep in hands that you beat.  Although as BL said the line from the opponent up to the flop is strong. 

I may fold preflop, but it is ok to peel because you have that shiny disc thing in front of you.

Unknown

Not a great fan of peeling a 5x raise with KQo, regardless of position or not, until I know for certain villain is opening really light. 

In addition, there is a 1200 stack in the blinds, who can concievably shove over 460 worth of dead chips with any pair, decent aces etc, and wouldnt want to commit 200 and then fold to a shove.

Flop, 5xer pots the flop, again, without reads that he does this with 100% of his range, its an easy flatcall, not a raise (raise folds out JJ and under, and ships with AQ+ and good combo draws).