Can you post the hand here?

thanks, I just don't like clicking on links :)

So I think you are 8 handed in the LowJack w AA and UTG limps, you raise 3x and get called by HiJack and Button, so go 4 way to the flop.

You don't give stack sizes so I'll assume you are all 100BB deep and normally there would be 9 at the table and you are playing cash game.

You don't give any reads so I will assume they are all competent.

First thought is that you need to raise much bigger Preflop. AA plays best headsup and you want to discourage people from joining in. Every extra player that joins means it is better value for the next player and so on. You are lucky the blinds didn't come along too cos they are priced in.

Plus you want to build a pot. I normally play 6 max so I'm not familiar with opening sizes for larger tables but I would have thought 4BB for Mid position and then at least 1 more for the limper so 5 or 6 BB raise. Your aim is to get heads up with the limper. If he folds he didn't have anything anyway.

Once you are 4 way to the flop AA is just a good pair. People tend to play straightforward in multiway pots so are less likely to bluff. This board favours the callers. You block all the hands that could have called that have an Ace and if they had premium hands they should have raised for the same reasons I gave above. Hands like you are up against here tend to like middle cards.

I would have checked everything here, check called with AA and other pairs and open enders and check raised with sets, 89 for value and gutshots as bluffs. With AA I would have called turn and probably river - targetting Jx hands and still losing but losing less.

I think you overvalued your Aces. Villain has lots of hands that beat you or can improve. In general you don't want to raise him off his bluffs so raising is not achieveing what you want - it folds his worse hands and leaves you up against his 2 pairs, sets and better with just a pair. If he had AJ and bet all three streets you would have extracted the maximum from him but you would have probably folded that hand out with your raise.

Hey man. I saw this when I was trying to find my cash game database online and I have this actual hand in my database since I was in the BB for it. His VPIP is 46 and he raises flop cbets a fair bit. I wouldnt worry about this hand because against this player you will hammer him in the long run.