Playing 1/2 7 handed. Hero is sitting behind 365 and is viewed as a good aggressive player. Villain is new to the table and has played solid thus far and is sitting behind 150.

Hero is in mp with AsQh. Villain is first to act and makes it $6. Hero raises to $24 with AsQh. Folds around to Villain who calls $18. Flop comes 6h 6d Jc. Villain checks, Hero continuation bets $35, Villain calls. Turn comes an Ac. Villain bets $50, leaving $41 behind. Hero???

Shove.

Villain can only fold here if he has complete air, and the hero cant fold to a $91 effective bet. May as well push on the miniscule chance he has the flush draw. If he does and it bricks, that's $41 you wont be getting if you flat. V is betting almost any river, and H is calling any river anyway.

Mistake to 3bet preflop. You are in MP and solid villain raises before you (so he is in early/mid position), so AQ is a hand to call with and see the flop, call off one or two streets if you hit the A or the Q (if he barrels that is, if not, then bet flop if he checks or check behind turn if he bets flop then checks behind). If you miss and he C-bets, then fold or float depending on how good your reads are on him, if you have no info on villain except that he is solid and you have only seen him continue with premiums, then fold, if he opens and c-bets a lot you can call and bluff blank turn if he decides to check behind.

Those are the possible ways in which the hand would play out and how you should play them, in my opinion.

And btw, we are calling because it is 7 handed, and we assume that villain can open a wider range utg and does not play abc poker. Full ring game we would fold to a utg open from this player with AQ in mp.

Haha, hey met you this weekend at Mohegan. Yeah the mistake here is pre, no need to 3-bet just flat.

Considering he is new and you don't know enough about villain is pure enough reason not to be 3-betting this villain to begin with. Let alone he is UTG, you have position and this is 7 handed.

AQo not a good hand to 3B with, but this is an easy shove on the river. you cant put half your stack in with AQ and then all of a sudden have fear of AK when the A hits.

fyp

also c-bet smaller, villain may be concomitant but probably not smart enough to realize that you have a bet sizing tell

Grunch....

Why 3b preflop? If V is a solid player and raises in early position you have to think you aren't crushing a lot of his range. If the table was full, I could see a fold here, or a call, but 7 handed I call. If flop brings A or Q, I call assuming V bets. I'm generally ok with winning smallish pots with tptk...

Unless you think you are winning the hand outright on the 3b, not much good can happen. You are going to miss the majority of the flops and be forced into a c-bet into what you have to assume is a decent hand, if he checks. If he bets, you wasted $$ in the 3b.

IMO the problem with calling 10 handed is what do you do when the button 3 bets for 30?

AQ is a fine hand to 3bet, but not in this situation.