Large PF Raise w/AJs in BB vs. 5 Limpers

[DavidC]

I'm playing Paradise $2 right now (.01/.02) blinds. My roll is about $57 and when I get to $75 I'll move to the NL $10 tables. My goal is to slug it out there until I've got $250 or so and then move to the NL $25 tables.

So, yes, these $2 tables are a little crazy, but I swear to god, they do fold sometimes (quite a bit of my profits come from bluffs)! [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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Paradise NL $2 (0.01/0.02 blinds): 7 handed.

Stacks:
SB: ($1.44 in chips)
BB (Hero) ($0.84 in chips)
UTG: ($6.55 in chips)
UTG+1: ($2.41 in chips)
MP: ($2.15 in chips)
CO: ($1.92 in chips)
BUTTON: ($1.89 in chips)

Hero dealt AJs diamonds.

pf: limp, fold, everyone limps to sb, sb completes, hero raises to 0.25, everyone folds except sb, sb calls.

*** FLOP *** : [ Ac 2h 8h ]

sb checks, hero goes ai ($0.57), sb calls.

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My PF raise was about 1/3 of my stack. I had decent cards but bad position, and I've got about 1/3 chance of hitting the flop.

With 1 caller, a 1/3 stack bet means that I'm only able to bet the pot on the flop, giving flush draws and straight draws correct odds to call me all-in river. I'm not sure that that's entirely good. Perhaps a 1/4 to 1/5 stack bet is better.

Once I hit the flop, I had no choice but to go all-in, based on my stack and the board.

Does anyone here disagree with the size of my pre-flop raise?

--Dave.