[curtains]

Yes microbet, I think very few people do. I just don't see a lot of great cahnces to extract value from my hand, especially given the huge stack sizes involved and the very deep stacks. One thing thats for sure is Im almost completely unwilling to get all my chips in the pot later in the hand without an ace coming. If I bet something like 150 now and my opponent checkraises to 450, I have no choice but to committ all of my chips if I want to continue (Calling is kind of annoying). Now suddenly if my opponent flopped something I have gone from a huge 2100 chips to 300 chips immediately. Meanwhile I'm hoping they will somehow decide to call all 1700 of their chips with something like TT, which they often would have reraised with preflop anyway.

My chip position is so good and its so hard to get any serious value from my hand in this situation, that I prefer to play it slowly and hope to win a small pot, instead of risk getting involved in a big pot, or having to fold my hand at some point. If my opponent had 900 chips I bet the flop of course and I'm willing to move allin no problem.

My main point is that once the flop comes I'm no longer expecting to win a giant pot with just one pair, AA. Instead I shift my goals and try to get a smallish bet here or there and win a small to medium size pot without ever risking a large portion of my chips. This is a rare situation that usually happens just when I have a huge stack early and my opponent does as well.