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Originally Posted by johnnyBuz
Mina - are you basing fold pre on the “tight, passive table” description? This could be a leak of mine but I don’t mind the 3bet here under good conditions. Calling definitely the worst of the three choices.
If HJ is tight and never raises and $15 isn’t a sizing tell then don’t 3bet AJo, but this looks like a pretty good scenario from my perspective.
Yeah, under good conditions it's probably somewhat okay. But OP has a LAG image, reducing his FE dramatically. I don't expect the squeeze to get too much respect and OP is basically bloating a huge pot OOP where he's deep with a hand that has RIO and not too much fold equity pre, and it's hard for him to pot control when he makes one pair hands. He will also be OOP to any player who calls, and if more than one player calls (which he is inviting to happen by making it $80 pre), he is going to be in a world of pain when he flops anything. If you're going to play OOP in a 400-600bb pot, you probably want to go somewhat more polarized and have suited hands/PP that can stack/cooler people this deep, not trash like AJo that almost always just flops weak pairs in a 3b pot. E.g. Maybe 88+, KJs+, A10s+, QJs, A4s/A5s, etc.
You also kind of have to be wary of 3-betting too many offsuit hands, as there are a ton of more offsuit hands and you can start bluffing too much pretty quick. I don't know if it's super relevant, but for some of my 3b/4b hands I randomize between flatting or 3b/4b if I have a club in my hand. It's to avoid 3-betting too much (as in some positions I'm already 3-betting a ton), and it also doesn't cap my range on K high boards if I mix between flat pre and 3b pre with KQ, as opposed to always 3-betting or always flatting.
Also the fact that OP's been LAG and the table is "passive," it's pretty conceivable that one of the callers is trying to trap OP as well.
I can get behind a 3-bet if the table is just weak tight and you have a card-dead/tight image, but here specifically I think it's just super spewy.
Last edited by Minatorr; 03-20-2019 at 06:39 AM.