NL100 AA facing heat on flop

[jii]

This post reminded me of a hand that I played yesterday.

Villain is quite reasonable pre-flop. Post-flop he's biggest leak is total lack of pot control. I hope this is an easy decision for the most of you, I did something stupid instead..

Prima Poker skin
No Limit Holdem Ring game
Blinds: $0.50/$1.00
5 players
Converter

Stack sizes:
UTG: $123.11
Hero: $210.65
Button: $81.50
SB: $97.50
BB: $39.53

Pre-flop: (5 players) Hero is CO with A[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] A[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]
UTG calls, <font color="#cc0000">Hero raises to $4</font>, Button calls, 2 folds, UTG calls.

Flop: 8[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] 7[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] 7[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] ($13.5, 3 players)
<font color="#cc0000">UTG bets $8</font>, Hero calls...

P.S. Strange pre-flop, my standard is 4BB + 1BB / limper.

[mudbuddha]

preflop i dont mind, its 5 handed 4x is goot.

you cant ask for much better flop than that one..
if he has 88 hes not betting here or a 7...

you have position... You can call here and let him catch up. Depending on how worried you are that he may have a set or something...

if hes just coming out betting, he probably has a decent hand.. (i wouldnt really say 2/3 pot is heat)

personally i'd probably raise the flop bet to about 20.. Get some action outta hands 99-KK when their drawing thin.

[JackAll]

Does anyone like a min-raise here? It often gets rid of total bluffers so that helps, but might not give enough information since it may not always get rid of 99-KK.

[Lizard King]

I think I raise to 25 here and probably call if he pushes. I really doubt he has anything that can beat you right now. If he has KK-TT your gona get paid off nicely if he calls the raise. Now if he calls your raise and pushes the turn I might consider folding but will probably call still since I'm a post flop calling station.

[BalugaWhale]

I may call the flop and pop it on the turn.

I'm not too worried about draws.

[jii]

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I may call the flop and pop it on the turn.

I'm not too worried about draws.

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Hmm... Maybe it's the language barrier, but do you mean pot it on the turn? What if villain bets close to pot on the turn after your call?

[BalugaWhale]

pop it means "raise it up" on the turn.

I am very confident to be ahead here.

[jii]

Ok, thanks for the clarification. I'm only familiar with the saying "I'm gonna pop your cherry" which isn't so widely used on this forum.

[orange]

I call here too. Here is another good post about AA on these types of flops:
AA easy on the flop...

[DandyJam]

Aren't anyone the slightest worried about the guy left to act behind you? If you just call he's given great odds to call. I would raise it up to ~20. If the guy behind you calls your raise, I proceed carefully from there on.