I was playing some $0.02/$0.05 6max Zone Poker on Bovada and came across an aggressive opponent. I'm still very new so I'm looking for feedback on how I handled this situation.

Hero with 199bb in Cutoff with KhQs. Open raises to $0.15

Villian with 106bb on Button. 3bets to $0.52 (pot sized raise)

Blinds fold.

Hero calls.

Pot is now $1.11. Effective stack size 96bb ($4.79)

Flop is 5cQd9d

Hero checks.

Villain bets $0.42

Hero raises to $1.50

Villain shoves all-in making it $4.79

Bovada has anonymous players, and Zone poker (equivalent to Zoom poker on Stars) is new opponents each table, so no specific reads on the villain here. I do have a sort of general popluation read for this session in that I was encountering a lot of 3 bets when I was rasing from late position. The pool at this time was ~30 players. So there were a few aggressive players who were attacking blind steals and general weak raises. I was also seeing a good amount of aggression on flops, with people tending to settle down a bit on the turn/river, which seems typical for microstakes here.

One read I made here was the use of the pot button for 3-betting, which I was seeing consistently every time from preflop 3 betters. If this was my first hand of the session, I would have likely folded, as 3betting is not so common in general at these stakes. I was seeing so much of it this session that I felt one or more players was 3betting to try and exploit players tendency to just fold and move on preflop in zone poker. It's possible it was just 1 player, given a lot of players tendency to have a very tight 3 betting range, and with the smallish pool size I could have been running into the same player repeatedly, especially if they were 2 tabling (max for a particular zone poker pool).

On the flop, given my preflop read and his small bet sizing, my first thought was that he likely whiffed this flop and was just c-betting. I raise here to put him to the test. Once he goes all, based on my previous read I put him on something like broadway cards that missed entirely, top pair, some sort of straight or flush draw or a pocket pair. Without this read, against an unknown opponent at these stakes, I would have folded. Here I felt like I was beating enough of his range to consider calling here.

Is this logic reasonable or am I just trying to talk myself into paying villain off with a bad call? Thoughts on my preflop call and raise on the flop?

(Will post results later)