Arrrrrrrrgggggghhhhhh - another bubble after playing well

[chardrian]

Couple questions:
How do you bet this hand?
Game #894593695 - Tournament Playa - 25/50 No Limit Texas Hold'em -
2005/07/13-16:43:25.7 (CST)
Table "Playa 1" (MTT) -- Seat 6 is the button
Seat 2: gotskillz? (1,650 in chips)
Seat 3: Arminia (2,155 in chips)
Seat 4: Elkmaster01 (1,195 in chips)
Seat 5: bluehanded (2,500 in chips)
Seat 6: sniper180 (3,995 in chips)
Seat 7: dice7 (1,295 in chips)
Seat 8: chardrian (2,715 in chips)
Seat 9: RubsyDubsy (4,280 in chips)
Seat 10: tall66 (1,435 in chips)
dice7 : Post Small Blind (25)
chardrian: Post Big Blind (50)
Dealing...
Dealt to chardrian [ Ad ]
Dealt to chardrian [ Ah ]
RubsyDubsy: Fold
tall66 : Fold
gotskillz?: Fold
Arminia : Fold
Elkmaster01: Fold
bluehanded: Call (50)
sniper180: Call (50)
dice7 : Call (25)
chardrian: Raise (100)
bluehanded: Call (100)
sniper180: Call (100)
dice7 : Fold
*** FLOP *** : [ 2s Ac 9d ]
chardrian: Check
bluehanded: Check
sniper180: Bet (200)
chardrian: Call (200)
bluehanded: Fold
*** TURN *** : [ 2s Ac 9d ] [ Jd ]
chardrian???

And then this was the most important hand of my tourney.
My opponent, snaggs, had just limped in with A8 os and called a 4XBB raise to the end with nothing on board (he lost to AK).
What do you do?

Game #894605444 - Tournament Playa - 50/100 No Limit Texas Hold'em -
2005/07/13-16:54:35.8 (CST)
Table "Playa 7" (MTT) -- Seat 1 is the button
Seat 1: snaggs (2,555 in chips)
Seat 2: $Gimme$ (1,490 in chips)
Seat 3: TheMoke (3,225 in chips)
Seat 5: monty22 (4,335 in chips)
Seat 6: gus h (2,430 in chips)
Seat 7: bluehanded (3,185 in chips)
Seat 8: elvis183 (940 in chips)
Seat 9: Ridge Runner (5,400 in chips)
Seat 10: chardrian (3,465 in chips)
$Gimme$ : Post Small Blind (50)
TheMoke : Post Big Blind (100)
Dealing...
Dealt to chardrian [ Jd ]
Dealt to chardrian [ Jh ]
monty22 : Fold
gus h : Fold
bluehanded: Fold
elvis183: Fold
Ridge Runner: Fold
chardrian: Raise (400)
snaggs : Call (400)
$Gimme$ : Fold
TheMoke : Fold
*** FLOP *** : [ 3d 8h 6h ]
chardrian: Bet (565)
snaggs : Raise (2,155)

chardrian???

[Sed]

min raise preflop?
raise the flop if you are bet into.

you'll never get someone committed without getting some money in on the early rounds.

- sed

[chardrian]

AA hand I liked my 3xBB raise - it doesn't necessarily smell of AA.
I checked that flop cuz the A is a huge scare card - I doubt someone has the 4th A and with my raise preflop people will be very suspicious that I DO have one, I'm first position, if I bet it is likely going to be folded around. The big question is whether to make a bet to try and induce a raise on the turn or to check again.

[Sed]

sorry misread the hh. thought you raised to 100...

I prefer betting out a standard/slightly weak continuation bet (no draws to be afraid of yet) because anyone who caught a piece will call/raise and if it makes it to last position where he tries to grab the pot and you call/raise, you won't get any more money out of him unless he improves...

- sed