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Villain is a reg, 26/21 opens 31% from CO folds to 3bet 69%. BTN flats 20% and 3bets 5% OTB and SB calls 14% and 3bets 14% from the SB.

SB and I had been going at it a bit and he had 4bet twice from SB after I 3bet squeezed from BB.

Safe to say is that at this point in the session I had a very active image in terms of 3betting and squeezing from the blinds.

Anyways, I obviously 3bet AK and villain 4bets kinda small. I think with my image 5betting is an option, but I felt like villain wasn't really looking to mix it up with me that much, so I put him on a pretty strong range: AA-QQ and AK for sure, possibly JJ-TT, AQ and a few bluffs.

What do you do on the flop? Call, raise small or shove?

Poker Stars $0.50/$1 No Limit Hold'em $0.20 Ante - 6 players

BTN: $252.27
SB: $290.27
Hero (BB): $250.00
UTG: $250.00
MP: $170.62
CO: $542.43

Pre Flop: ($2.70) Hero is BB with K A
2 folds, CO raises to $3, BTN calls $3, SB calls $2.50, Hero raises to $16.25, CO raises to $34.50, 2 folds, Hero calls $18.25

Flop: ($76.20) 6 7 A (2 players)
Hero checks, CO bets $41.50, Hero...

How much is he cbetting? Is he betting KK-JJ here? Is he betting A8o? If yes, I'd ship to try to rep a draw.

How likely is it you think he barrels with a random bluff say T8ss or KTo? If it's pretty likely I'd call and ship most turns/call down depending on sizing. If he's realizes when you call you mostly have QQ/JJ/TT and you ship AK calling for balance reasons is a pretty good idea, but you probably only have to worry about that against me.

My first inclination was to minraise but I don't think people put you on that many bluffs (looks like AK imo) and even if they do they don't want to spew off 250bb shoving light.

Villain cbets 72% over 750 hands, 9/12 in 3b pots. I obv expect him to bet most if not all his bluffs on this board. His sizing is kinda strange though, since pot would be $160 and effective stacks $175 on the turn, which seems to be a kinda awkward if he is looking to barrel 3 times all-in as a bluff.

Anyways I ended up shoving thinking that villain would have expected me to 5bet AA/AK a decent enough % with my image, and at the same could've expected me to peel preflop with some random suited cards, given that he 4b pretty small. I'm not sure my thinking was correct, since villain tanked for forever and folded AK!

His fold seems pretty bad because he only has to worry about 1 combo. It's probably tough to get paid off here no matter what you do, but I would start by calling. I don't expect villain to 4bet AQ and I don't see why he would ever 4bet JJ or TT (you only get 1 street of value from those anyway).

such a weird stack for either shoving or calling imo. can i elect to punt?

I think shipping flop is usually a mistake since I don't expect most people to felt AQ or worse this deep unless they're tilting or you have some kind of history.

shove pre