Villain is loose-ish battle reg, other player is reg fish
$1000 effective

Villain opens to $20 in LP, regfish flats, I flat AQ in the BB
(3bet pre)

Flop: AQ2 ($60)
Check to villain, he bets $40, folds to me, I raise to $120, he calls

(maybe just flat flop because our range is so dominated here we need all our strong hands in a c/c range or we're gonna have a bad time on future streets with like, A5s)

Turn: K ($300)
Hero bets $200, villain jams for $700 total

(this is one of the worst cards in the deck, nothing wrong with checking this hand)

What is a battle reg?

I’m squeezing to $85 75% of the time. Flat sometimes is of course fine. Better to do with AQs tho. I play flop the same. Turn sizing is good, I kind of wish we could size down here but we still beat most of his range. We are playing exploitably here by folding, but it’s probably the right play. GTO dictates we call here i think, but I’m folding absent other reads.

A reg who plays back against pressure, makes hero calls and thin value bets and good but maybe spewy bluffs.

110 pre, pot flop (board lock reasons), shove turn (no better option).

AP pre, just ckc flop (raise is awful), ckc turn and riv and you get 3 streets with good SDV by keeping him so wide.

AP flop, bet call-off the 500 (because you can be foldin' to the battle reg and you always spike a Q otr if you're behind)

With A I think it's a fold but depends on how spewy. Also your range looks strong on turn since KJ and KT aren't playing turn this way so you prob don't have enough bluffs here. Also not sure if he has enough bluffs since he has AA, QQ, 22, most if not all JT, and sometimes shoves turn with AK. He would prob need something like 12 bluff combos to make this a call and I don't think he has that many.

Is it 1000 effective or 840 effective, the latter being what Villain's bet add up to?

Did he open CO/BTN/HJ? You just said LP and it matters. Vs BTN it's a 100% 3bet vs CO call is fine 3bet is fine, vs HJ 3bet is also fine but call makes a lot more sense.

x/c flop is fine, x/r is fine vs players who aren't gonna fold a hand like AJ plus we there's some combodraws we get value from and we definitely can have AQ 22 A2s (or maybe off) and maybe even Q2s depending on your BB defend range (but it was a 4x open so probably not A2o and Q2s) so yea x/r exactly AQ is definitely fine but it's for sure gonna be easier to play as a call. I would call.

Turn ap is dicey. If I'm going to bet, which I think is fine, I'm not betting 2/3 pot. I'm betting like 1/3 pot. Check is fine; I think I'd bet 1/3 pot.

Vs the turn jam once we use this bet sizing I'm folding. He'd have to be pretty creative to find some bluffs here because our bluffs on the turn are only basically low flush draws like Txdd/Jxdd, 2xdd and 34ss 35ss 45ss and I think those diamond combos are gonna just call the flop instead of x/r (cause of the reasons you mentioned where we're being absolutely crushed on the flop in terms of nutted combos and a little crushed in terms of EV). So if those are our bluffs I'm not sure what he's jamming turn w/ that AQ beats.

Pre im almost always squeezing, AQo is way ahead of their ranges and OOP here vs two players we are going to way underrealize equity and get bluffed off the best hand very often. Picking up 9-10 bb uncontested is huge.

AQo also plays better HU than 3-way.

Otf i have a zero raising range on this texture. Just flatting.

Turn is the nastiest card, id look to xc to keep ranges wide

Ap i muck and dont think too much about it. There arent too many regs who can spaz here 200bb deep with a bluff

^ Preflop is really dependent on the position of the 2 villains which she didn't specify...

If it's a MP open and CO call then I'd lean a lot more toward flatting but obviously 3bet is ok. If it's a btn open and sb call I'd lean a lot more towards 3betting (I'd 100% 3bet) but obviously call is ok.

Looks like the rest of the hand we agree though