[Nick C]

You really had an unfortunate set of circumstances pile up on you here: You have a passive preflop and postflop player who loves his hand playing back at you and a multi-way pot with a highly coordinated board.

I think what you did is all right, really. When someone raises as rarely preflop as UTG+2 does and we only have 100 hands on him, it's hard to know with much certainty what hands he raises and caps. I mean, we only get dealt AA-JJ about 1 in 55 times on average, so there's a lot of short-term variance there.

Edit: Protecting your hand, if it's currently best, is going to be difficult, but I'm thinking you might as well put in the effort, like you did. And putting in a little action for value seems all right to me too.

Possibly check-calling the flop and then checkraising a favorable turn may be something to consider. I'm not sure. There is a pretty good chance you're behind UTG+2's AA anyway. To some extent, I think you just have to hope your hand is best and that it holds up.