$22 ($10kg) 5th hand. Presented in stages, How to play it?

[Patrio]

5th hand so no reads, Utg limper has played no hands. I will present the hand in stages. What is your first move here?

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t20 (9 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: 2+2 Forums)

UTG+1 (t2970)
MP1 (t2940)
MP2 (t3060)
MP3 (t2960)
CO (t3220)
Hero (t2970)
SB (t2880)
BB (t2980)
UTG (t3000)

Preflop: Hero is Button with A[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], A[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img].
UTG calls t20, <font color="#666666">5 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero ?

[TFGoose]

Raise to t80

[APipeDream]

I make it at least 80, probably 100-120 this early though.

[TFGoose]

With AK or QQ- I agree to make it t100 or greater, but here we're not that scared of action. The small blind should still fold it down, and if the BB wants to come along for the extra 60, more power to him. If I got two players along for the ride, I'd just have to be absolutely sure to close out any draws on the flop.

--TFGoose

[Patrio]

I did not know whether to raise to t80 and pray for a re-raise, and risk going to the flop 4way, or raise to t100 and hope utg gets a long for the ride. But you all agree on raising to t80, or do some feel we should raise to t100/t120?

[TFGoose]

I don't think either plan is horrible at this point. I'm comfortable raising to t80 here because we have the nuts, but there's nothing wrong with making it t100 if you like. I wouldn't go as high as t120 though.

--TFGoose