Should I have just called with my aces?

[bweiser8311962]

Pot-limit hold-em.

I get AcAh in the big blind.

Player 2 calls.
Player 3 calls.

3 folds

Button raises the pot.
Small blind calls.
I reraise the pot. Everyone folds. I take a $4.25 profit for the hand.

The more I think about this, the more I think I should have smooth called, and hoped to get a good flop. Unfortunately, it was about 12 hands after losing a buy-in with KK against freakin' Q/5.

Any thoughts?

[AllIn3High]

You did the right thing, with this many people showing interest in the pot you can't let them have a cheap shot at outflopping you.

You don't mention the stakes, but taking down a 10-15BB pot with no risk is always better than getting stacked. It's not every time you have aces someone will have any kind of hand that can call.

[swolfe]

you need to reraise so that the fish don't school you. if it were going to be heads up, a call would be good for disguising your hand.

you should be reraising preflop with more than just AA/KK