PLO25: TTJ9 SS, seeking feedback on preflop and flop

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PLO25: TTJ9 SS, seeking feedback on preflop and flop

Blinds: $0.10/$0.25 (6 Players) UTG: $34.06
MP: $26.47
CO: $24.65
BN: $56.86 (Hero)
SB: $28.31
BB: $12.29
UTG is extremely tight: 15/11 over 104 hands here on Ignition (which, sample size wise, might as well be 1M by the standards of anonymous tables).
Preflop ($0.35) Hero is BN with T J T 9
UTG raises to $0.85, MP calls $0.85, CO folds, Hero raises to $2.95, 2 folds, UTG raises to $10.05, MP folds, Hero calls $7.10
I'm still figuring out what to do with hands like these on the button: non-nut single or double suited rundowns (in this case, with a pair "interrupting" the rundown). Given our options, I don't think this is a fold on the button, but I also don't love it as a multiway hand. TT isn't necessarily too low for set mining (though I prefer QQ+), but I really don't want to have a tough spot with spades against more than one opponent.

Blinds' VPIPs are mid-30s, so I don't think they're cold calling a 3bet too light.

So, I 3bet pot and UTG 4bet. Boo. In retrospect I can only see their 2.2% 3bet in DriveHUD (help with this would be appreciated), but we can generally put villain on AA and little more here, I think. Maybe an awesome DS AK or KK hand, but opening/4betting UTG is pretty strong.

Running a sim on our equity vs AA has us not even a 2:1 underdog, though. And I think this hand can flop pretty well, but I'm open to correction on that idea.
Flop ($21.30) 5 3 2
UTG bets $21.30, Hero folds
This is the worst good flop ever. Or maybe it's not even that good. But this was a super tricky spot: UTG had cbet 6/9 times and their AGG% was 42. So I won't be shocked if they're doing this with every AA.

But on this flop, we're almost exactly a 2 to 1 dog against an AA range, in a simulation. But we're in terrible shape a lot of the time. Against a AA4, AAs:ss range, we're worse than a 4 to 1 dog. Not that it's what they always have here (and they may not even have AA), but this felt too marginal for a call. So I folded.

But in retrospect, was I giving up too much equity for the price? Villain isn't always holding spades and against AA!ss a call becomes +EV (not that we're ahead; it's just the right price).
Final Pot UTG wins $20.24
Rake is $1.06

My first RIO HH! Hopefully I used the street-by-street comments correctly... happy to get feedback on every decision! I'm still figuring out 3betting vs calling on the button, so I'd be especially eager to hear about that.

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