Terminator,

Woody's advice looks good to me. I think the pre-flop bet did for you - especially when you got 2 folds (although you were lucky at this stage you were not re-raised). I would have checked with AQ - have you read the section in Super Systems about AQ where Doyal B says something like "it is a hard hand to win a lot with - but an easy and hand to lose everything with"

Do you think a flat call would have encouraged the BB to bluff with a bet against 3 limpers? If he had bet - say the pot - would you have called or put him on AA, KK or AK?

Suppose too it all depends on previous plays, your "feel" for the action and what you could get away with. Also wouldn't it have been great to know at he start you were going to end up with QQQAA - hindsight is a depressant and the game could have been so different if BB had QX. As they say in Wales, allegedly, "It's all if, if, if and if yer aunty had bollocks she would be yer uncle" meaning - I think - retrospective If's are not always reasonable perspectives. Don't beat yourself up about it. Have a couple of beers and go for a lap dance to distract yourself for a bit.