Fun with AA...

[imso_ontilt]

Obviously here, you were playing with some donks. Your standard raise was good, you had 3 limpers on your BB and you bumped it up pretty nicely. $20 in the Pot, you raise the Pot. Still got two callers. Thats the problem in it of itself. With AA, or any big hand for that matter, you want to be heads up in the pot. You go from being generally 80-20 to being 60-20-20. I dont know about you, but would you want to risk your whole stack (hypothetical 3 way all in) on a 60% chance? Sure you'll be ahead, but thats not an overwheling favorite. With the flop of QJ8 w/ 2 diamonds, picture your odds of winning against your draws. With two other hands in the pot, you could likely put one on a flush draw, and possibly the other the gutshot most likely holding the Ten. So with two cards to come, you have to dodge 9 outs on the flush draw and 4 outs on the gutshot, 13 outs, 2 to come. Youre again about 60-40 favorite. You can always fold a pair of Aces, Aces are no guarentee, its just a pair. So, you may ask how do you play it different? Well the preflop raise was OK, to me, it was a bit of an overbet, but it worked. The flop is where you went wrong. With betting the flop hard, I would get the feeling that you Missed the Flop with a hand like AK and would be more liable to get a call from a gutshot or the flushdraw, because they might think they have more outs than they really do. A check-raise would indicate you are very strong, and the gutshot mightve dropped, but the flush draw looked like a gambler, so I would know hes not going anywhere. This is one of those hands where you cut your losses, take your medicine, and get back to playing your game.