To value bet or push???

[Rhound50]

2/5 NL game at the MGM, wild crazy game. Villian 1 has $1500, Villian #2 $2200 and I cover both.

Villian #1 has been playing a lot of hands raises to $20 from the BB after 4 limpers. I call with . Villian #2 calls behind. Flop comes AQ8 rainbow. Checks to me I bet $60, Villian #2 calls, BB raises to $120. The min raise scares me a little, could he really have QQ or AA? I decide to call, I figure getting action from player 2 is finem there is almost no real draw that scares me. Villian #2 folds. Turn is an A. Villian fires $75, I raise to $300, he thinks for a couple min and calls. River is an 8, I still have the nuts. He asks me if he checks if I'm gonna push all in. I tell him I dont know, check and find out. He checks and I push.

Question comes on the river, the guy ended up showing an Ace and folding, value bet better on the river. After thinking about it a little I think his speech shows weakness. I was praying he had QQ or AK. He told me he actually had A10. comments?

[MVPSPORTS]

[kennyg]

i'm trying to figure out why you didn't raise preflop in a live game?

[Molina]

[Rhound50]

Crap, good catch molina the flop is supposed to be a 7 not an 8.

Kenny in these very loose games I see no need to raise AK or AQ, I get paid pretty much the same amount in a raised or unaraised pot, so why build a big pot when all you have is ace high. CB's in this game almost never work, since there are so many people just calling everything.

[Triple B]