AQo vs maniac

When you find yourself in a spot where none of your options feel good, odds are you made a mistake with a prior decision. Here, you shouldn't have 3B a maniac with AQo. That's a pretty easy flat call when we'll have position on him post-flop.

You are correct that none of our options feels good. Folding AQo to a maniac feels too nitty. Jamming is just gambling and hoping our hand is both good and that it holds up. By some weird process of elimination, calling and seeing a flop becomes our best option, assuming we really don't have any fold equity, and don't want to play for 200BB's with AQo.

I'd be careful about assuming we have no fold equity. Our image matters, maybe. As does the recent history, and the stack depths. Maybe he snapped with JTs for 100BB's, against another aggro player, but he wouldn't snap for 200BB's against us.

All that said, I don't think it's a huge mistake to fold or jam here, against this V, as described, even if we think we have a slight skill edge post-flop, when in position. It'll suck to have to fold or call off the rest of our stack if we don't improve and he keeps his foot on the gas.

I'm fine with the 3bet -- AQ is golden vs. this guy. Just shove -- let him gamble w/ worse.

Edit: If you or your bankroll can't handle the variance, don't 3bet.

Shoving. The issue is whether it’s a fistpump

I don't think it's no brainer, we've seen him 3 bet light, and call 4 bets, but have we seen him 4 bet light? It's not a bad inference to assume he will, but if he's thinking and perceives you as tight and not generally playing back at him, he may read your 3-bet as strong.

That said I think I just stick it in here. We block 3 of the 4 major hands that we are significantly behind in equity - AK, AA, QQ here, and we may get him to fold his TT/JJ.

Shove

Shove he's a huge maniac. Yeah it's a bit high variance but if you didn't want to play for it all just flat preflop.