AA ugly flop -- $200NL full ring

[ericlambi]

$200NL Full ring. $2BB.

Hero (~$200) dealt A [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]A [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] in SB.

All fold to MP2 (~$200) who min-raises to $4. CO (~$200) calls. Button (~$160) calls. Hero raises to $20. BB folds. MP2 calls. CO calls. Button calls.

Flop ($80): 9 [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]8 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]7 [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]

Hero bets $70. MP2 folds. CO folds. Button pushes all-in. Hero calls $70 more.



My thoughts:

Looking at the results, I wish I would have bet more pre-flop because I don't want to take 3 to the flop with AA. But honestly, 1/2 the time I make that bet I would get zero calls and most of the rest of the time I'd get just one. Raising more really risks losing all 3 . . . maybe this isn't a disaster though and I should make them really pay to see a flop OOP with AA?

On the flop, I really don't know what to do here . . . the pot is already huge and there are an a$$-load of draws out. I don't feel like I can check and risk giving a free card to [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]s or a straight draw. OTOH, any real bet almost pot commits me because I will be getting big odds. These players are not good and would go to the felt with TPTK or any overpair. This makes it difficult to have any idea if I'm behind a set/straight or ahead of a hand I dominate.

[beavens]

instacall for me.

[emil3000]

NH

[Mercman572]

tough spot. I think a call or fold approaches neutral ev but I don't know how to work pokerstove with range of hands. Any PP>99, any set or 2 pair, and sometimes even FD and overs will do this. I think you're probably behind more times than not but pot odds probably justify a call

[KowCiller]

perfectly played.

KoW