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Raise the flop, get the rest in by the river. That is not a scary board for AA.

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I'd like to add to this that your river thinking is flawed.

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If you raise the flop to $5 and bet $6 on the turn, villain will have a little less than 1/2 pot left on the river. Unless your read is he will call an AI with a draw on the turn, then setting up a river bet (push) that a marginal hand can call usually works for me.

I want to get worse hands pot-committed. A half-pot turn bet doesn't give a draw good odds.