1-2-3 AQo missed river bluff spot?
Effective stacks: ~$400
Hero in MP with AQo
Villains:
Villain 1: in BB, younger white male that just sat down at the table a couple hands ago so no reads so far
Villain 2: EP, younger asian woman, plays pretty solid and raises majority of her hands preflop. I see her here frequently and she plays aggressively post-flop as well
Preflop:
Villain 2 raises to $20
Hero (AQo) 3-bets to $60
Villain 1 cold calls.
Villain 2 calls
Pot ~$180.
Flop: 2h 5h 7s
Villain 1 checks
Villain 2 leads small for $35.
Hero flat calls.
Villain 1 also calls.
Pot ~$285.
Turn: Td
Everyone checks.
River: 8c
Hero?
I thought about betting $200 but I am not much of a bluffer and play a very nit style so I wasn't sure if this was appropriate line. I felt like the heart draw missed and couldn't really put villains on ranges. Villain 2 betting into me on the flop threw me off a bit and didn't want anyone trapping me and I also thought that my Ace high might be best here. Thoughts?
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I'd like to know your position at table during this hand. 3-betting an EP from MP is stronger than 3-betting from button and makes your perceived range stronger. It's also helpful to know what suits you have because that allows a backdoor flush draw with a call on flop if you have a heart. So I don't really have the info I need to give my thought process.
But 3-betting is definitely fine preflop with AQos in position. Personally more than often I will just call $20 here rather than 3-betting, but I'll do it a decent amount of the time, especially when I've played with the person. To unknowns I would rather call but if I know someone is aggressive pre I will start 3-betting much more frequently. I do also mix in more 3-bets with suited connectors or suited aces as well, but slightly prefer flatting $20 here, but no huge mistakes made yet.
The flop line is why I prefer not 3-betting. If I miss I can just fold to a c-bet, or check back and hope to spike an overpair. If she leads into us then it encourages us into having to make a bluff we might not be comfortable with and risk donking off our stack. Nothing wrong with playing AQos conservatively from an UTG EP raise. As played, I probably just fold, and I'm more likely to raise than to call. I know it's $35 to win $180 - $215, but calling encourages EP check raise, and even if we hit an ace or queen if it's a heart we're worried about flushes or sets. I don't really like a bluff on this river. I think I'm probably just checking. I would have saved myself $40 prefllop + $35 flop here, which definitely adds up.
I'd like to know your position at table during this hand. 3-betting an EP from MP is stronger than 3-betting from button and makes your perceived range stronger. It's also helpful to know what suits you have because that allows a backdoor flush draw with a call on flop if you have a heart. So I don't really have the info I need to give my thought process.
Sorry about that. I updated positions in the original post but don't remember the suits. I know we didn't have backdoor flush possibility so that's why I felt weak here and wasn't more aggressive.
But 3-betting is definitely fine preflop with AQos in position. Personally more than often I will just call $20 here rather than 3-betting, but I'll do it a decent amount of the time, especially when I've played with the person. To unknowns I would rather call but if I know someone is aggressive pre I will start 3-betting much more frequently. I do also mix in more 3-bets with
I've had a hard time playing AQo when I just call because I'll miss 2/3 of the time but if I'm coming in as the preflop aggressor I see that villains usually fold to flop c-bet. Should I 3B AQo OOP more and maybe think about flatting IP? This villain also raises a lot of her hands preflop so I wanted to 3B and make the pot bigger while having position on her
