AJo 3way - to c-bet or not to c-bet?

check/call against CO is fine. Lots of cards that will improve us. Any heart, J, A and even Q and K give us extra gutters.
I'd check/call flop multiway and re-evaluate turn.

I would check the flop with 2 over cards and the backdoor flush draw multi way. especially with the passive villain on the CO I would play it safe.

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SDK1987

It's a cbet for me.

In NL2, check/fold or bluff big is also an option, I think.

When in 3-way, things are not clear. Anything can happen, especially with SB's wide range. If CO bets and both SB and Hero calls, which turn card is good for hero, enough to x/r 3X?

In NL2, we could sometimes forget about the small EVs here and there. So, I would play this type of Flop quick and simple. If my image is strong, bet 2/3 and if both fold about 40% of the time, it's good enough. Otherwise, x/f and let CO deal with SB's range. When CO starts exploiting our strategy from the left, move to another table.

If you prefer an aggro line, bet 1.2x of the pot, and you could represent an over pair or a set. Fishes do it all the time, and it works. You only need to succeed about 55% of the time.

I think it could be a c-bet, you have backdoor stuff plus 2 overs, and sb checked. This is a good question, I'm not sure what the best line would be do we check giving initiative and call hoping the turn improves or do we bet? if we bet and get called and lets say a J comes still tricky to play isn't it ? there would be more combinations of better hands than our AJ if a J comes on the turn ?

It wouldn't surprise me if solver says this board is a check.But i don't know as i don't use a solver at the moment.

I guess it's close, without any more reads on both villains I'd play x/c there. I tend to x/c on that spot most of the times, since we have the A♥:
Anyways, I believe that either both x/c and cbet are fine. You just can't go x/f