$55: Should I have bluffed all-in on paired board on lvl4?

[AA suited]

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saw flop|<font color="#C00000">saw showdown</font>

Button (t810)
<font color="#C00000">SB (t2660)</font>
BB (t1145)
UTG (t1400)
MP1 (t1715)
<font color="#C00000">HERO (t1415)</font>
CO (t855)

Preflop: HERO is MP2 with 7/images/graemlins/heart.gif, 7/images/graemlins/diamond.gif.
<font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">HERO raises to t250</font>, <font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, SB calls t200, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>.

Flop: (t600) 8/images/graemlins/club.gif, 6/images/graemlins/club.gif, 8/images/graemlins/diamond.gif <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
SB checks, <font color="#CC3333">HERO bets t1165 (All-In)</font>

no reads since I was multitabling.

Should I have bluffed all-in? and WHY?

[jcm4ccc]

It's not a bluff, since you probably are ahead. Sorry if you ran into a higher pair or an 8 (an 8 seems unlikely).

[calf]

I don't think this is really a bluff since you probably have the best hand anyway. You most likely won't be getting a better hand to fold. A bet seems necessary on this flop but I don't think it has to be all-in for 2x the pot. You can bet 1/2-2/3 the pot and make a decision if he checkraises or calls. Since you have no read it's tough to know if he would only call with 99+ pre-flop or if he could possibly have an 8 in his hand. If you got called you were almost definitely behind, and by pushing you didn't give yourself a chance to get away from the hand.

If you don't push and just bet, you can still take a stand if he plays back at you, but you'll at least have a chance to get away from the hand if you're behind.

On second thought you might be able to get a call from a suspicious low pocket pair by overbetting but I'm not sure it's likely enough to justify it.

[The Venetian]

Looks OK to me. Definitely going to be nervous waiting for SB to make a decision, but OK. Like others said, it's not really a bluff here.

I'm curious about the preflop raise. Not questioning it, necessarily, but curious. Would you consider limping here? Maybe raising to 350 or 400 to clear out any possibility of speculative calls from the bigger stacks?

This might be a good spot to deviate from a "standard" pre-flop raise.