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Playing in a 5/10 game with $20 straddle, a good TAG pro in UTG+1 comes in for $35. An unknown in the cutoff calls and it folds to you in the SB with KJs. Stacks are about 100 BB's. Is this a call or fold? If a fold, are you calling with KQs or AQo?
I would fold KJs or KQs. If my read is the UTG+1 player is good, V isn’t going to be opening that wide which puts these two hands at an equity disadvantage against V’s opening range. If I call, I will be playing OOP, with an equity disadvantage, without the initiative, against at least one good player, maybe two (cutoff). Calling is ugly.
3-betting with KJs or KQs is still ugly because I bloat the pot under bad circumstances but at least I have the initiative and might get heads up which increases my odds of winning the pot.
Most of the time, I fold AQo in this spot as well. If I decided not to, I would 3-bet/fold AQo and pot control if we go to the flop. A good player IP isn’t going to pay AQ off big frequently given this action. If the pot gets big, AQ is normally a dog. As strong as AQ looks, it is a trouble hand to play OOP against a strong player who raised UTG+1, with or without the straddle.