The table: I've been there for about an hour and have taken down two big pots at showdown and only one other w/o showdown. It's been lively and almost every hand sees a flop, almost half go to the river. I have three college aged, online poker junkie young gun types to my right. They seem to play fairly tight and one (the Villain) is fairly aggressive . . . I haven't seen him show down yet. He's taken a couple big pots but all on folds. To my left are several calling stations . . . one to my immediate left is an ATM. Only other player of note is an older Asian man to the left of the calling stations who often raises to $17 with multiple limpers and he also seems to call raises of this size more than he should but is mainly focused on playing the ATM. It's worked well for him and he's built up a stack of about $1500 ... half of which came from the ATM. I can only assume the ATM had a hot run before I got to the table. I have about $600 and Villain has about $250.

Pre-flop: I have AhAd in the BB, there are 6 limpers to me. I raise to $15 and get get two callers (older Asian big stack and Villain, aka agg young gun).

Flop: 3h 8c Jc [pot ~$50]
I lead for $30, Asian big stack calls and Villain raises to $95. I tank for a minute and call. Asian big stack folds.
[pot ~$270]

I'll post the rest of the hand after comments but the action so far is my main concern. Thoughts on the pre raise size and calling Villain flop raise? I put Villain on a some type of combo draw or, lower on my list, a set. Either way, I couldn't see folding to one raise from a fairly aggressive player here. My plan for the turn was donk / fold.

i'll raise a bit more preflop probably 20 just to isolate and hope only the atm calls
when you have huge fishes in your table you want to isolate them with big raises
and discourage actions from other players

as for the flop bet a little bigger 40ish - for value/protection and prevents a bluff/raise
you have to make a decision now either opponent is on a draw or a made hand like a set
if you put villain on a draw
just shove any blank turn since the pot is already huge
or just shove flop
and of course it's easy fold on flop if you put villain on made hands only

Raise more pre. 15 I'm surprised as many folded as they did.

Never want to play aa vs multiples oop. Bet around 35-40 on flop. After he raises shove.

Gg

Thanks, Slim & Dango. I guess my thinking was backward. I figured AA would hold up well enough to 2-3 callers to make the extra action worth it in the long run . . . i.e, the bigger pot outweighs the reduction in equity %. Basically, I didn't want to be facing 5-6 but figured 2-3 was good.

As far as made hand vs. draw, I didn't think I had enough info. I figure draw is more likely given his prior aggression and that his flop raise seems likely to win less $ if he did have a made hand (seems like a bad play to me if you've got a set when the aggressor is OOP). Either way, I didn't think I could make a snap call. Figured 65% draw, 35% 88, 33.

As played, how do you feel about the plan to donk/fold the turn?

pot is already 200+ after flop
if donk then it's a shove
there's no fold involved

another thing is many donks/weak players like to put hero on ak for some reason
and sometimes after hero calls they will think, oh hero is on flush draw!! lol
they will raise with JX a good amount with that logic

of course, against regs this is usually not the case

so really, it depends on your session with that type of opponent to understand which type of player he is