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I decide to raise to 1600. I do this because I am trying to represent a steal and a bully.

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I have shown strength with my raise

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You're trying to have it both ways, representing a steal and showing strength at the same time. I don't like minraising with AA,

FWIW. I also think he could call with AK there, not wanting to inflate the pot out of position against a raiser.

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You're right. I can't rule out AK. He might just want to keep it cheap with this drawing hand preflop. I just put it behind the other hands as his most likely holding, but you're right. I shouldn't totally rule it out.

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If villain flat called in this situation with AK, he is a worse fish than hero.

The miniraise preflop wasn't terrible, but hero needed to get the money in. Raise the flop and push the turn. Hero could also flat call the flop and bet or raise the turn to trap villain a little.