I raise small preflop with AQ and get 3-bet, two people cold-call the 3-bet

Shoving can't be too bad.

Raising to 5 is way too small in a live game. Default should be at least 10 in a live 1/2 game.

I would just call the 3bet and hope to make a hand. You can shove depending on how much 3betting is happening in the game. In the games i play in 3betting is pretty rare except for me and one other decent reg. Any other regs that 3bet have a strong range so I would not want to stack off w AQo vs them. If the LJ is unknown i would default to a call here bc in general 1/2 players do not 3bet anywhere close to often enough.

LJ is not unknown. He previously raised pre to $15 from the CO vs two early position limpers with pocket threes. That seems like a pretty loose preflop raising range.

This spot is pretty maddening. If deeper this would be a pretty good 4b fold spot. Can’t do that at this depth. Shoving can’t be terrible with the dead money but I think we are only getting called by JJ+/AK. Don’t love turning AQ into a bluff. Folding out his smaller pairs would be great though. Calling sucks.

fold until you get a handle on his 3b range.

pre size seems silly to me just make it $10.

If you're opening to $5, expect to get 3B squeezed.

Either tighten up your range and open to whatever the standard open size is for the game, preferably from LP, or have a polarized range that's going to be raise-fold or raise-jam.

AP, I think we should jam. Playing AQo multi-way in MP between the blinds and the PFR is going to suck. The blinds can't be too strong, and LJ's 3B'ing range doesn't need to be when you're opening $5 from EP.

Am I too risk averse to not wanna jam PF here?

If you have a tight image, how about 4-bet to 100 and fold to a 5 bet?

Not folding. Also not 4b/folding, as you'll be getting at least a 3:1 price to call

So we know he can be fairly wide and its not really a typical 3bet range bc you opened so small. I would just call though still. I think folding would be absurd.

4bet to 100 and fold would be ridiculous as we only have 205. 4bet size would only be all in which we definitely can do but id rather call

Raise to $12-15 pre, if that means playing fewer hands, so be it. Your raise size is so small i have no idea if hes got his 3 betting range or just a normal raise range, and the raise to $5 is such a big error that I dont even care to think further about the hand past that.

I jammed after counting the pot and realizing there was so much dead money. Also, I thought 3-bettor could be pretty loose.

Also, I block the nuts and the 3rd nuts and I'm jamming from UTG.

3-bettor thought for a bit and folded.

The blinds folded quickly.

Easy game.

In my experience at these stakes a $5 raise will likely see more callers than if you limp. So if your plan is to see a very multiway now bloated pot OOP, raise to $5 from EP.

Geezus, that's so simple, so true, and so painfully obvious, yet it's never occurred to me before you posted it.

OP - perhaps consider a limp-call pre-flop strat, rather than opening $5. Still prefer raising a normal size with a tighter range from later positions, but limp-calling has to be better than opening for $5 and either folding to a 3B or going to the flop multi-way and OOP.

I 4bet shove