AA on a safe flop, NL sit and go

Game type: NL SNG
Your image: n/a
Stage of tourney: First hand dealt
Avg stack: 1500
Misc notes:
Your hand: A♦A♥

The setup: You are dealt AA UTG on the very first hand of a sit and go tournament and decide to just limp. It folds around to the cutoff, who makes a standard raise to 60. The blinds fold and you decide to re-raise, making it 220 total to go. The CO calls and the flop comes:

9♥5♠5♥

Since it’s the first hand, you have no read on your opponent and no image to speak of. You’re first to act and there’s 470 chips in the middle. What do you do with your aces?

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Anonymous

With the way this was played preflop, the opp. has to put you on a big hand and I don’t think he’d fire a bluff into a hand that was represented like this. I’d overbet it and hope he sees it as a sign of me making a play on him.

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mary

half the pot. I hope he has a hand to call or even raise, I’m not thinking he has a five.

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Bill

I like checkraising here. It’s the first hand so our opponent doesn’t know if we continuation bet or not. If we check, we make it look like we have AK, and he may take a stab at it. It also sends a message to the other players that if you raise preflop and check the flop, you’re not to be trifled with. That could come in handy later in the tournament.

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Kyle

Big pot sized bet. You want to make it look like your trying to steal. This play is good against almost any hand he called a pre flop raise with. If he has 99 so be it take your chances. You still got 2 outs and thats the way the game goes sometimes. More likely you will take all your opponents chips if he has any pair and maybe even AK. Checking would only be good against AQ-A10 or KQ. This would give your opponent a chance to hit or maybe bluff the flop. Its less likely that he would call a re raise from UTG with these hands. He probably has 10-10 or 88.

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ripp

pot size bet. you check raised preflop, now represent a good hand again. it looks like your bullying. so he might call with his pocket paint or pocket pair. if not you take down a nice pot on the first hand of the tourny. the only thing you have to worry about is a 5 or pocket 9s. so hit the pot again.

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