This spot has been bugging me since last night.
Villain is a standard Aggro Mtt reg who is 3b a lot and been annoying /tough to play against.
I haven’t seen this an on acr but his sharkscope was
Blocked so maybe he’s good. My ranges aren’t as solid for sub 100bb mtt poker so I had some questions here

Hh:
I’m on 159k@ 1.5/3k
15bb stack opens hj for min 6k
I have aq and 3b from co to 15k
Villain (who is unknown at this time) makes it 42k from sb

Is this just a super standard defend and take it to the streets
Are ppl rly 4b weaker hands in this spot?
For his range I’d probably 4b some frequency of kjs/has 99+ Here. Aq is gonna do pretty good here if his range is this wide.

Or I could just fold bc I’m like ok dude you prolly just have it and I don’t wanna ditch 40% of my stack and I’m 5/27 right now and there’s lots of soft spots around so I’ll just let u have it

Bonus hh
I open hj w ajo
He 3b the hand before like an orbit or two ago orb to 2.5x off covering stack at like 50/60bb
Do we like aj in a 4b bluffing range or is the price too good and I can just defend a good hand

I choose option 2
I call flop 568 I have bd diamonds w the j
Do we like
Lead
C/f
C/r
C/c
And why

Thx
Ps fu if you see this post but I respekt your lag villain

Does villain cover?

First hand: I think his 4bet range is pretty strong here. OR range with 15 BBs should be pretty strong here. I imagine he's jamming a lot of his more marginal holdings. So you can't 3bet him that wide here. So I'd say villain has AQ+/TT+ at the least. I also think he would just jam with the lower end of that range (assuming he covers you here). So I think he's realistically QQ+/AK and you can fold.

Even if he is capable of cold 4bet bluffing here, I wouldn't expect him to do that when OR is so shortstacked.

On hand 2, I would probably just 4bet jam AJo with 50-60 BBs against a villain like this here. Maybe flat AJs.

As played, c/fold flop. I think he'll bet his overpairs and draws and check back his overcards. His range is too strong to play back against with naked overs. Maybe x/raise if you had the Ad

H1 I think we fold pre knowing that its super doubtful anyone is bluffing here. The HJ is so short hes clearly intending to get it in against him, or has a read that HJ is raise/folding here and knows how strong this 3b looks to you. I think its just 10x more likely hes just trying to stack off vs the short stack here.

H2 just x/f flop I think - it sucks to get pushed around but that doesn't mean we should take super low equity spots to fight back. As mentioned above it gets better to x/c or x/r with the Ad.

With OR being so short and SB unknown (at that point) this is a muck

what are your 3! stats like OP?

flat the AQ and 4! the AJ imo (but not rly sure of depth in second hand and assuming 4!/f is viable)

What did cutoff do in H1? I assume he folded since you didn't say. I think the 4 better has a very tight range, even if he is aggressive. I'd fold either way.

Hand 2, is never a call. Fold or jam, for sure. Why play a tough player out of position with a hand that really needs to flop 2 pair to love it? I'd save my calls for hands that flop very well, like JTs or set mines if the price is right.

AQ/AJ are just not that great without initiative...

I don't think it's viable to have a 4bet/fold range at 50-60 BBs. In any case, doing that with a hand like AJo would be bad.

My 3b stats are pretty in line I don’t run a hud these days since I don’t rly make a ton of explo adjustments and just try and play an optional strategy. But fr mtts I prolly 3b @ 8-12%

In hand 1 the original raiser folded. I honestly think that the 4bettor can be pretty wider than u think as he’s prolly fine flipping w a bunch of hands that the 15bb stack gets it in w and original raiser is gonna fold almost always here. So it’s a pretty nice spot for him to be aggro w some hands I think.

Aj can be an ok hand to 4b small but I think vs the small 3b I can just take it to the streets mostly. (Which I ended up doing and c/f flop)
Annoying tho because I think he’s likely way to wide and a decent exploit to your typical mtt reg who’s 3b some silly ranges to just 4b him pretty aggressive and ajo works kinda well w blockers and playability post and makes and easy fold vs 5b shove

I think AJo is too good of a hand to 4bet/fold.

I do think it has enough equity to just 4bet jam at 50-60 BBs against someone who's 3betting like a maniac

Yea villain covers both hands

Like flatting both, prolly just c/f n2 and feeling meh.

I really dislike 4b jam with AJo and agree that it is bit of a too strong hand to 4b/fold. I'm finding playing AJo in similar spots very difficult. Ppl are 3betting A2s-A5s pretty standardly here and they could flick in any random Axo from my experience so I really want those hands to stay in his range.

H1 folding and calling both seem reasonable
H2 easy x/f flop, we'll defend a ton of hands that connect with the board pretty good vs that 3b sizing