Deliberate overplay of AA

This has been quite successful for me recently as I've put in frankly ridiculous raises pre flop to see if anyone wants to gamble and assume I have a far far weaker hand. It still amazes me how often this is true. There was a mass limp in for $10 from 6 people so I raised to $230 with AA for fun and got flat called by someone with a $1000 stak who folded to my bet on the flop when a 10 high board was showing - can anyone explain what he was doing to me, if so I would be delighted to hear about why someone would play a hand that way. If he'd reraised or bet the flop I'd understand but this truly defies explanation to me!

A more an more common habit seems to be people raising to $20 preflop in an attempt to increase the pot and take some sort of control - I hate this as I really don't know what to put them on and often reraise very aggressively. This happened again when I had AA guy utg raises to $20 so I pumped it up to $100 he flat called and then on a 10,2 5 board went all in for $600. I have to be honest, I didn't even think about it - it has to be a snap call as there is so little which is beating me - 3 hands at most all of them a set and tons which are not. He bet I called he turned over JQ for a total bluff. Again I cannot explain why someone would do this - I am not weak postflop and I am tight pre - he must know I have a minimum of JJ and almost certainly more. Can't explain it can only say cheers for the donation and move on to the next hand.

I strongly recommend trying these sorts of plays as they pay off far more often than I can explain, experiment and mix up your play - very hard for someone to put you on AA when you look like you want no further action.

I won back the $1500 I'd lost on saturday last night and am back to about $2500 up for the month - don't have exact figures as my pokertracker is smoking away inside the remains of my knackered old Dell. Long weekend as we get monday and tuesday off so I should have lots of time to play and may actually get something going - it'd be nice and about time!

Steve