AA hand

[Scuba Chuck]

Thoughts on how to play this? Not excited about how I did.

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t15 (10 handed) converter (http://www.selachian.com/tools/bisonconverter/hhconverter.cgi)

UTG+2 (t1225)
MP1 (t785)
MP2 (t800)
MP3 (t640)
CO (t710)
Button (t770)
SB (t770)
Hero (t800)
UTG (t800)
UTG+1 (t700)

Preflop: Hero is BB with A/images/graemlins/spade.gif, A/images/graemlins/heart.gif.
<font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, UTG+2 calls t15, MP1 calls t15, MP2 calls t15, <font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, Button calls t15, SB completes, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t80</font>, UTG+2 folds, MP1 calls t65, MP2 calls t65, Button calls t65, SB folds.

Flop: (t350) J/images/graemlins/spade.gif, J/images/graemlins/diamond.gif, 9/images/graemlins/spade.gif <font color="#0000FF">(4 players)</font>
Hero checks, <font color="#CC3333">MP1 bets t50</font>, MP2 folds, Button calls t50, Hero calls t50.

Turn: (t500) 6/images/graemlins/club.gif <font color="#0000FF">(3 players)</font>
Hero checks, <font color="#CC3333">MP1 bets t50</font>, Button calls t50, Hero calls t50.

River: (t650) 2/images/graemlins/diamond.gif <font color="#0000FF">(3 players)</font>
Hero checks, MP1 checks, Button checks.

Final Pot: t650

[Bigwig]

Oh, I don't think it's too bad, other than maybe raise a little more preflop. You're in a good spot to bet more than 80, because of a lot of these dopes think you're trying to steal the pot, and they'll call you with position. Remember, you really don't want a multi-way pot. You want to be heads up. Raising it to 100-125 (the psychology of a 3 digit bet) should be better. But I wouldn't go for more than that. You don't want to lose everyone.

Otherwise, remember what happens to AA after the flop. It drops in value. Severely. And this board is scary. Very scary. My guess is that you still won the pot. And it was a nice pot. And you minimized your risk postflop. I think you did fine.