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Edit: 150nl so not deep

25/20 villain, 55 hands, 4max table, 3bet 6%, fold to steal 80% but it was bvb; his raise cbet was 1/4 or something like that

So pretty much unknown, what do you do here normally?

BB: €183.72
UTG: €154.89
BTN: €162.17
Hero (SB): €165.19

Hero posts SB €0.75, BB posts BB €1.50

Pre Flop: (pot: €2.25) Hero has A A

fold, fold, Hero raises to €4.50, BB calls €3.00

Flop: (€9.00, 2 players) 9 Q T
Hero bets €6.00, BB raises to €18.00, Hero raises to €45.00, BB raises to €179.22 and is all-in, Hero

I think I'm bet-folding here. We do really poor vs his raising range in general. If we are IP we could call his bet or check-raise but since we are OOP this hand is so hard to play. We will face a turn barrel like always and we are only happy with an ace on the turn.

Edit: Plus there are no flush draws out which decreases our equity vs his raising range

Spot where you should pokerstove his range and see how AA actually does vs his percieved range...Its actually a pretty common spot I find....helped me alot pokerstoving these spots.

Not sure what bet/3betting accomplishes if we aren't really doing it for value, and it also puts us in a weird spot when we get shoved on. It's a good way to lose the max when he flops a set or straight or two pair.

Not sure what bet/3betting accomplishes if we aren't really doing it for value, and it also puts us in a weird spot when we get shoved on. It's a good way to lose the max when he flops a set or straight or two pair.

Yeah I think if I want to continue I would just call his raise. This spot sucks because he has so many hands that he can be raising for value and even his semi-bluffs have good equity vs. AA. I kind of want to just fold without some better reads even though it's BvB.

Preflop
I'd open to 3 bbs being deeper than usually.

Flop
You can c-bet slightly bigger, since this board hits his range really hard and you will get plenty of action. Villain looks like an honest player, so I have no idea what you have done in this hand. It's a very clear b/f. Once you get raised you are done. Why? Because:
- like I said, this flop hits his range so hard
- he is a tight and honest player + unknown so far
- you are drawing dead vs str8 and almost drawing vs a set

Even if I would have a blocker to something (9, T, J, Q, K) I wouldn't bluff 3b the flop. Not mentioning doing it w/o card removal effect like you did. Calling his shove is going to be probably your biggest poker mistake ever, so don't do it!