[Nate tha\\\' Great]

I've goofed around with open-limping with medium aces in the SB before. Not enough to say that I like it, but I don't hate it either.

I think that, if you are going to open-limp, then betting out on the flop is probably the right play, mainly in the hopes of inducing a bluff raise. On this board, a check-call looks pretty suspicious, and I think will only induce an extra bet out of the opponent on the turn in situations where the opponent is strong enough to have called down / played back anyway.

I don't understand the river play, either. Perhaps he could argue that your range consists only of hands that aren't good enough to call a check-raise, or luckbox hands like T8 that made a straight. But, that wouldn't be a very good argument. Did a flush draw come through on the board or anything?