Re: AA small blind
You don't need to protect every hand. Sometimes you can't. The first and foremost reason you are betting or raising should be value. If you think you have an equity edge, exploit it. Even if someone has odds to draw to a gutshot, trips, two pair, etc., they are still (usually, i.e., without an extrordinary number of players in the hand) paying you money to draw. Would you rather have it checked around and give them a free card? Then they have paid you no money, and they still get to draw. If circumstances are right (good relative position to another preflop aggressor), sometimes you can raise or check/raise for protection as well. If you're the only preflop aggressor, you can't count on this.
Sometimes it is correct to give up a very slight amount of value to exploit a larger edge later. These instances are the exception, not the rule. AA in the SB is not one of those situations. Preflop, you can only have a huge edge. Doing anything other than raising preflop and leading the flop is giving up a helluva lot of value, not just a slight edge.
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