11 handed. 0.25/0.50 home game.

Hero is UTG+2. Stacks are $160 effective.
Main villain is MP2, a LAG player.
Hero's Table Image is "NIT/Aggressive" with a "too high" C-bet frequency.

Hero holds AQ

Blinds post.

UTG (LAG) raises to $2, UTG+1 folds, UTG+2 (HERO/NIT) 3-bets to $7. MP1 folds, MP2 (LAG) calls, fold, fold, HJ calls, fold, UTG calls.

4 players. Pot is $28.25

Flop is QJ8 (TPTK on wet board with flush draw and straight possible)

Hero bets $20, MP2 raises to $45. Fold, Fold, Hero 3-bets to $160AI.(???)

If our 3bet is going to end up going 4ways to the flop, I'd much rather just flat it, especially since we're also going to end up OOP to most of the field.

I might just check this flop and see what happens. There's a bunch of hands that are crushing or have awesome draws, I'm not exactly pumped about building this pot even more at this point. If we check and fireworks break out behind us, we can get away for cheap. Otherwise maybe we get to the turn for nothing where the turn card will change our standing drastically.

I think the flop shove is a pretty big spew. Even though we have a cbetty image, we just cbet into 3 opponents; that's strong. Plus we 3bet preflop; that's strong. But this guy just raised the flop with two people still left to react against the preflop 3better on a drawy board; that's hella strong. Even a lotta draw hands are doing awesome against us. If I was betting the flop, it was too fold, even against a laggy guy who sees us a cbetty.

Gspewy,imoG

Grunch

Can you range MP2 when he flats your 3bet? Doesn't seem like he should have a whole lot of XXhh type hands in his range, should be more weighed towards PP's. Flop sizing doesn't appear to be that of someone who is drawing... Need more info to give you good advice, but I would probably fold the flop, although my response may be biased due to your thread title which suggests you lost the hand.

Thought Process:

Result:

grunch

looks like a fun game. big RIO spot here. I think that a flop bet/fold is best, since all hands have you beat or have significant equity (if A3hh sigh-calls, it wins close to 40% of the time).

I think the key thing that comes into play here is that this is a 4way pot and that there are 2 other players still in the hand. Which makes your continuation bet stronger. Which makes his raise enormously strong. Players are just less likely to be making moves in multiway pots like this.

HU, obviously different story.

GcluelessNLnoobG

Yeah, this was a stupid move and a leak in my game. NLHE's actually my worst game. (I play mixed.) But mistakes are how we learn.

Define RIO?

If players are cold-calling light then make your 3bets bigger. 3.5x is around standard online. Make it about $9/10 pre, especially if you're deep, regardless of whether or not other players' opening sizes are too small or not. Then again, you don't want to be bloating pots deep with AQo pre unless your table is really fishy, then it's a profitable as hell move (flop Axx and get worse Ax to pay you off a lot of the time).

sorry for the lingo. RIO = reverse implied odds. a classic example would be: you raise with AA and see an 567 flop. Your hand now has significant reverse implied odds, since, even though you may be ahead now, you'll lose money on a bunch of bad turns and rivers.

Ah of course. Yeah I know that theory already. So many abbreviations for poker haha