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Villain is 19/9 but the problem here is his 3bet is only 2.2 %. He probably sees me as laggy and running around 22/17. My only other read/note on the villain is that he had donked out huge w/ a set on a coordinated flop and then overbet open-shoved the turn(1.5X pot), which leads me to lean towards his river shove being for value. I played it passively on the flop because of how strong I perceived his range to be. On the river I lose to AA,JJ,AK,AJ and split w/ AQ, or he would have to be trying to bluff me off the best hand with worse which seems really unlikely. Thoughts?

Full Tilt Poker $0.25/$0.50 No Limit Hold'em - 9 players - View hand 616982
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BTN: $30.00
SB: $20.35
BB: $50.00
UTG: $67.85
Hero (UTG+1): $70.60
UTG+2: $60.30
MP1: $35.65
MP2: $53.60
CO: $59.40

Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero is UTG+1 with A Q
1 fold, Hero raises to $1.30, 6 folds, BB raises to $4.15, Hero calls $2.85

Flop: ($8.55) 5 J 3 (2 players)
BB bets $5, Hero calls $5

Turn: ($18.55) 4 (2 players)
BB bets $10, Hero calls $10

River: ($38.55) A (2 players)
BB bets $30.85 all in, Hero ?

Fold pre. Unless you have a good reason to be calling 3bets with AQ, it'll just end up losing you money. You get dominated a lot in the big pots and rarely get enough value to justify it when you are ahead.

If I get to that river (which is likely never as per above), I would fold if I'm playing well and call if I'm not. That is just such a disgusting bet that I don't think you are ahead often. I probably woulda got it in on the flop or turn if I saw the flop.

Still fold pre.

Still fold pre.

This was the conclusion that I was coming up with as I was posting. I'm not sure what I was thinking at the time, either: People are probably getting fed up with me so AQs is probably a good hand to play in position here, or I didn't realize just how tight his 3-bet range was.

I posted to see what people thought of the post-flop play/thinking.

Fold pre seems right, but as played I probably call river given we only lose to AK and AA (ak seems unlikely to play this way).

Please raise 3x preflop. Calling pre is fine because we are IP. I wont raise the flop against a nitty Villain like this one. Villain gave us a good price on each street for calling so go for it. The river is a fold of course

Please raise 3x preflop.

Just trying something new with the open size here after watching NLFool's new video where he opens such a wide range and steals such a high % that he uses 2.5X opens everywhere except the CO and BU where he uses 2X.
2.5X at these stakes would be $1.25 so to save time I am using $1.3, so as to save a keystroke everytime. I figured it accomplished the same goal.

There's nothing wrong with making smaller than standard opening raises if you play the appropriate style (I always have a chuckle at min raisers playing 13/10 ATSB 25%). Although it helps to be as good as nl_fool

I think the pre-flop aspect of this hand is quite interesting and touches on the real crux of a LAG minraising style - playing 3bet pots IP only having invested 8BBs pre; so you have plenty of room post-flop to work your stylings. You're gambling that position and skill can overcome a stronger range.

As played I'm tempted to call the river. AK is unlikely, not many people take 2 stabs with air at 50NL in my experience; well they don't at me, but I am pretty nitty. Anyways, I reckon this is either AA or JJ moving in for the kill or some kind of panic shove from QQ/KK who doesn't want to check to you, watch you shove and hate life. Probably not much in it, but calling is more fun.

River looks like AK. That's the only shitty thing here, it's very likely he has AK. If he ever bets worse, like KK/QQ, then it's a call. If he bluffs a decent percent, it's a call. But this is FR, he's some nit, and you probably don't have some crazy image. This is probably a fold, now that I've thought about it.

raise getting it in on the flop is never going to be that bad once u get here. he might fold AK or a hand like TT if he has those in his range w/ is close. The river is a clear fold but i for sure get it in on the flop.

Fold pre. Unless you have a good reason to be calling 3bets with AQ, it'll just end up losing you money. You get dominated a lot in the big pots and rarely get enough value to justify it when you are ahead.

If I get to that river (which is likely never as per above), I would fold if I'm playing well and call if I'm not. That is just such a disgusting bet that I don't think you are ahead often. I probably woulda got it in on the flop or turn if I saw the flop.

Still fold pre.

I agree you are going to only get into trouble by calling. What would you expect the villian to show up with if he 3bet? From what I have seen the best you can hope for is a flip.

if he's aggressive enough for a call preflop to be profitable, then a raise on the flop is going to be very profitable.

and, given

"My only other read/note on the villain is that he had donked out huge w/ a set on a coordinated flop and then overbet open-shoved the turn(1.5X pot)",

this would make me think that his flop bet might be weaker than normal -> raise!