AA hand

[Rockymv]

My notes on thisisshui say that he is pretty aggressive and tilts easily. I've never played with tibaroo. Do I really have to lay this down on a board like this?

PokerStars Game #4090417206: Tournament #20328135, Hold'em No Limit - Level II (15/30) - 2006/02/25 - 02:23:03 (ET)
Table '20328135 1' Seat #4 is the button
Seat 1: Rockymv (2870 in chips)
Seat 2: jonsiegs (1425 in chips)
Seat 4: kidgmoney (1370 in chips)
Seat 5: onlyone2005 (1410 in chips)
Seat 6: thisishui (1620 in chips)
Seat 7: astromech (1910 in chips)
Seat 8: RajaPaki13 (1665 in chips)
Seat 9: tibaroo2 (1230 in chips)
onlyone2005: posts small blind 15
thisishui: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Rockymv [As Ad]
astromech: folds
RajaPaki13: calls 30
tibaroo2: calls 30
Rockymv: raises 90 to 120
jonsiegs: folds
kidgmoney: folds
onlyone2005: folds
thisishui: calls 90
RajaPaki13: folds
tibaroo2: calls 90
*** FLOP *** [Js 8d 3s]
thisishui: checks
tibaroo2: checks
Rockymv: bets 330
thisishui: raises 330 to 660
tibaroo2: raises 450 to 1110 and is all-in
Rockymv: ?????????

[mcatdog]

Rocky,

I don't think you should make big laydowns unless you're up against a player you really respect. Thisishui is a loose aggressive donkey. The other player in the hand is a player you've never seen before, plus he's already wasted 300 chips in the first few hands. He's almost certainly a recreational player who isn't any good. There's no reason to believe they have anything better than top pair, so just go all-in.

By the way I've actually seen thisishui make this check-min-raise play before with some fairly mediocre hands, and I wouldn't be surprised if he just had crap like 77, and for some unknown reason he put you on AK. His range is very wide here and it includes lots of hands that you have crushed.

I remember you once folded KK to me when you raised UTG and I called with TT from the big blind, and flopped a set. I bet out, you raised, I went all-in and you folded. It was a good fold because I know you're a good enough player that you most likely had a big pair, and you know I'm good enough to be capable of putting you on one, so you correctly assumed I wouldn't go all-in unless I could beat a big pair. In this hand you don't have to consider any of those dynamics because your opponents aren't good enough to think about much more than their own two cards.

[Rockymv]

On a straight or paired board when there's a raise and reraise I can lay AA down no problem. I've just been wondering whether I should always be suspecting a set when I encounter this much action on a relatively tame board. Interestingly, although I lost this hand, it led me to believe that I can't be too quick to give up AA in this spot. tibaroo instapushed over the min checkraise with AJ. shui had the set, but he could've made the same play with a lot of other hands.