Feel I was to soft pre with pocket Aces?

[jamarpa]

PokerStars Game #61194443581: Tournament #388085472, $10+$1 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level IV (50/100) - 2011/04/23 17:37:33 AEST [2011/04/23 3:37:33 ET]
Table '388085472 1' 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: Tmesun-yo (4250 in chips)
Seat 2: gupee_10-4 (1110 in chips)
Seat 3: pmvillela (265 in chips)
Seat 6: jamarpa (1975 in chips)
Seat 7: sinashgh (4365 in chips)
Seat 9: GothmanUK (1535 in chips)
pmvillela: posts small blind 50
jamarpa: posts big blind 100
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to jamarpa [Ad Ah]
sinashgh: folds
GothmanUK: folds
Tmesun-yo: raises 150 to 250
gupee_10-4: folds
pmvillela: folds
jamarpa: raises 150 to 400
Tmesun-yo: calls 150
*** FLOP *** [9c 7d 4s]
jamarpa: checks
Tmesun-yo: bets 250
Me?

Only 26 hands on villain with 66/45
mine was 16/14
I had also won the previous hand with an utg pre raise.

Was I to soft pre?
and what is my best play on the flop?

[TurnRiva]

Make it at least 700 pre, and lead flop.

If you check you should check call.

[risk2Dupside]

given u have 20bb I three bet a little smaller than 700 just in case people catch on that you're committed, always lead flop/jam turn

[thret]

Never min 3bet OOP with any hand.

Bet sizing with the best hand is pretty simple really, price out draws. In the range of [max they will call] and [minimum where it is correct for them to call], price towards the max.

Anytime you give someone a correct call you have made a mistake.

[SwoopAE]

Dont min3bet aces as a rule it gives away your hand and prices people in to suck out

As played shove flop over his bet unlucky gg if he sucked out

I'd probably lead ~35% pot on the flop to induce bluffshoves/valueshoves from worse hands

[jamarpa]

Ta guys, advise appreciated and taken on board. Tim, thanx's for the edit.

[allena]

Very nice advices
Hope I will get same when i post something like this.

[jamarpa]

Very nice advices
Hope I will get same when i post something like this.

Yes I agree allena, was constructive advise. Even better, all the comments came from guys that I railed regularly at the time and still do when I can. Have learnt heaps from all of them.

Just a note but, some times there will be advise that seems like just comes from a smart arse. In situations like this, research the commenter first and if they are a player of note, then review what they have said and you might be surprised that they actually were supplying constructive advise.

There are others that are just trolls of course. Ignore them.