33$; 10man; bb40, AJo spew

hey wiarygodny,

Whilst i like the idea of 3betting regs in this spot, i would rather do it with 32o on the button than AJo here i think.that being said you have good blockers and a hand that will sometimes make the best hand. Alot of the time when you 3bet the button he's in a much tougher spot with a hand like AK/AQ TT, he'll pretty much always fold AQ imo then he has the tough spot of flatting AK OOP vs a strong range, both of which suck and both of which are likely to lose him money, more often he will just take the 4bet/call off option with AK and QQ knowing that your positional advantage postflop will be too strong and his best option is to take that away from you.

However he can happily flat even as light as AQ in this spot knowing he has position post and is getting a good price pre, also FWIW i think he turns his hand face up more often if you make it a little larger, so even tho you got tasty blockers i would still often just fold, although some may argue 3betting EP raise from SB reg vs reg is gonna look v.strong, but up top is my opinion on the issue.

postflop i think if he flatted TT-KK pre he's gonna call once and give up, you're in a kinda tough spot on the flop actually when you flop an ace here, I think you're correct in cbetting, some players may opt to check here but the hand just plays easier as a cbet, when you check you pretty much have to call down given you're repping JJ-KK when you actually have close to the top of your range but you would have no idea on his bluffing frequencies and you can level yourself into making bad folds or bad calls since you don't know how often he bluffs. So i like the cbet even though the best outcome is either for him to fold or him to call once and check down. he can still pretty much have his entire preflop calling range in his range as we get to the turn though. (oh and i like your flop betsizing, could even go a little smaller)

I like the turn check if he has JJ-KK he should now just check down...so once he bets river i expect to see AK alot actually, not many people are gonna turn JJ into a bluff to get you off KK even if they should so i would let him have it here.

There is a chance he made a hoodflat pre with the T9s or something and is now turning it into a bluff but if he is well played to him most regs wont have these sort of hands here.

overall i like your postflop line but I would fold river

-F18

thanks a lot for such a detailed reply and analysis! Great stuff! So to sum up - adding some light 3bets agaist regs - YES, doing that oop - NO lesson learned