3B AQs

Fold is considered to be optimal but it is blind war after all. Calling is overplay but his sizing looks bluffy, i'd call here

Why did you only min-raise the button? You induce more 3betting and you won't know if he 3bets for value or because you induced.

Postflop, I'd fold. Sure, you may have blockers but it's enough for him to have one pair and you'll have a maximum of 25% equity. I took the worse case scenario, in which he 3bet bluffs, but flops bottom pair:

Board: 8♣K♣5♦
       Equity  Win     Tie
BU     18.64%  17.93%   0.71% { AdQd }
BB     81.36%  80.65%   0.71% { A5s, A5o }

Any stats on villain? You can think of a call as your flush draw is bd. But still we should look at his stats and notes on him.

Lets start from here - what range would you defend preflop? Assume the guy is unknown.

Originally posted by Zanardi1
Why did you only min-raise the button? You induce more 3betting and you won't know if he 3bets for value or because you induced.

Postflop, I'd fold. Sure, you may have blockers but it's enough for him to have one pair and you'll have a maximum of 25% equity. I took the worse case scenario, in which he 3bet bluffs, but flops bottom pair:

Board: 8♣K♣5♦
       Equity  Win     Tie
BU     18.64%  17.93%   0.71% { AdQd }
BB     81.36%  80.65%   0.71% { A5s, A5o }

There's a ton of different schools of thought re: button sizing; I know some people say raise bigger because you're IP, others say raise smaller because you get better odds to steal the blinds and have a weaker range, some say other things. It's not really the point of this hand and we'd be derailing the thread by focusing on it. In this instance, BB is a nit so I think it's fine.

Totally disagree that we should fold that flop. Players like to cbet a ton in 3bet pots and I think that + blockers/BDFD and the fact that we may even have the best hand makes flop a call.

Versus that turn sizing we have to fold unless we put him on a total bluff. Even if we were 100% guaranteed that he'd shove all rivers, including those where we make the nuts, we don't have enough equity to call with those implied odds - even if we consider our three ace outs live.

Something like AJcc or 76dd are the only hands we're crushing and I don't think we can assume an unknown has more flush/combo draws in his range than sets/AK here.