$200 NLHE Full Ring: Live $1-$2, Weird JJ hand in 4-bet pot

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Pretty bizarre hand with lots of relevant history in $1-$2 live game.

UTG limps
UTG+1 limps
CO has $250ish raises to $12
BTN has about $400 and raises to $32
SB folds
I make it $77 and I have everyone covered
UTG has $220 and calls!
2 folds
BTN calls

Pertinent information:
UTG is actually a nit-tag who loves to limp reraise his monsters in EP. He's been on an amazing run over several sessions where he just always has it when he bets and somehow gets paid off. There's definitely a tilt factor possible as he had stacked off twice to me this game, which is incredible...On one hand, I 3-bet him pre with KK, and he somehow managed to stack off after I flopped a boat (K88) with an underpair.

BTN is a middle-aged Russian woman who likes to splash around. She's not generally aggro although she had a weird dynamic going on with CO, a friend of hers. She doesn't raise much but sometimes she will overplay midpairs.

As for me, the reason I 4-bet is mostly because, in principle I despise flatting 3-bets OOP with TT-QQ. Not that any of the players in this hand are advanced hand readers, but it's just something I don't think is a good idea to do. Also, I despise turning JJ into 22 and trying to set mine. In this spot, I'm pretty happy to play JJ OOP if I can get HU vs. BTN with lots of money behind.

Anyway, the flop:
Pot: $245 :jd4: :kc4: :2c4:

UTG has $143 and BTN has $320ish

Hero?
 
Jillychemung

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I make it $125 as that leaves us an easy shove should UTG fold and BTN flats. Obviously shove for value on any turn.

Otherwise option is to bet $75 so that should UTG shove we can still raise if BTN flats the shove.
 
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Jilly, do you think as I do that one of them has AK here almost all the time?
 
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Betting 75 wouldn't allow you to re-shove if UTG shoves. We'd have to bet less than half his remaining stack.

But agree with Jilly here. I either bet like exactly UTG's stack, or I bet tiny to induce shoves from AK.
 
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Betting 75 wouldn't allow you to re-shove if UTG shoves. We'd have to bet less than half his remaining stack.

Thanks. I got the Limit raise rule mixed up here. So for this option we'd have to bet $70.
 
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