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Originally Posted by Mlark
The EV of 3betting is absolutely higher than just calling. Yes, you love for villain to fold when you 3bet AKo. But our EV when we get called or 4bet is way higher than normal because villain is supposed to fold a ton of his range to a 3bet but he keeps in a lot of his trash.
Concerning EV when he calls, what you say is true, it increases.
We now capture a higher percentage of the pot postflop if vilain only folds 15% at 3Bets, which is simply explained by our gain in EQ against a wider and more dominated calling range.
That being said, it is not enough to compensate absence of folds 3B, EV loss in fold 3B percentages lost increases faster than our EQ against its call 3B surplus, with AKo.
3B's EV decreases against it.
Even if basic, 3B AKo BBvCO has a better EV than call, better by around 0.7bb precisely and it's a pure 3B.
In reality 3bet shove is maybe or probably the best play against this opponent.