NL 200, with 2/2 blinds. Unknown player raises in CO (150 bb) to 4bb, BU folds, SB folds, BB (Hero, 150 bb) 3bets to 16bb with TdTc. CO calls, BB folds.

Flop comes AcAd5s. (Pot 34bb)

Hero bets 16bb and CO clicks it back to 34bb. What does Hero do now?

This seems to be a wa/wb situation, but Broadway-Cards have decent equity vs. my actual holding. I elect to bet anyway, since I'm unsure about his betting tendencies and whether I should xc once or twice on this board.

After his Raise I'm kind of confused. He does have a fair amount of Aces in his Range (probably more than I do, not sure if he knows). But I expect Ax to flat most of the time. Also I'm not sure, what to make of this Sizing. I guess IF you have a Raisng range here a small sizing is fine.

Is check >> bet on this board? Does anyone keep playing after the raise and how?

At 2/2, most players are not raising light. However, once the villain calls your 3bet, you're mostly behind. I don't mind the flop bet, but once the villain min-raises, it is time to go. Fold.

I would fold as well. The natural impulse is to peel at least once, but the population will fire multiple streets and won't give up so easily. Calling one street just to fold another one agianst this is like buring money right away and kills your redline winnings massively. Also this call is probably near zero ev and coupled with high variance anyway. Against dudes who are capable of raising with a 5 or PP the story is a wohle different one, but we dont have this information here.

It sounds like you have in mind a possible strategy here on paired boards. I honestly am always a bit lost on how aggressive action can take place here, mostly I stab after weakness is shown to me. Can you explain what kind of villain would raise on a pp or 5? And what do you make of such strategy?

Weird bet amounts, but whatever. Just fold. I'm not going to war with an unknown hoping he doesn't have an ace when he very likely does, if he's not already full.

I'd def cbet the 10s - any KQJ on the turn is not good for you, and you will have a good number of Ax hands in your 3b range.

Probably folding to the minraise, tho I can see this being a feeler/freeze raise with some hand like JJ-66. Against unknown, just letting it go.

Pre lgtm. I'd mix in calls against earlier position openers, vs CO 3bet feels nice. My pool of small stakes players is less passive than others so ymmv.

Flop before the raise this is a bit tough imo. If it was a more aggressive game I'd say you have more big offsuit A combos than he does and you can fist pump bet out this size which will protect you from QJs and KQs and KJs catching. But people don't 4bet AKo so much in smaller games where there's less big raising going on pre so I think you two have the same number of big A combos. However, he has more small-medium pocket pairs than he probably should. I think I like a smaller bet size here like 1/3 because it's way ahead way behind situation and things could get hairy quickly.

When he min clicks you. Your TT are toast. I don't snap fold decent value hands to min clicks on principle. It's the goods more often than not so if you don't hit the Jesus card in the turn fold. Often if this is a baby suited A hell freeze up at your call and give you another free card.

I'm open to being wrong on my flop minclick policy. It helps me sleep because I don't want to encourage the more aggressive players in my pool to take stabs. I want LAGs to fear me, not the other way around.

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