[Sushiglutton]

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I would agree with wanting to eliminate players with a pf 3-bet if you thought it was likely that you had the best starting hand. In that case, you would want to improve its chances of holding up.

However, there is a reasonably good chance that UTG has a higher pocket pair than you, and you would not be much of a favourite over UTG if she had 2 overcards to your pair.

In addition, it would become expensive to call another bet if UTG then capped your pf 3-bet, with presumably a higher pair than yours.

So overall, I think that calling the pf raise with the loose player padding the pot seems to offer the best value for your hand.

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I think u have a point. After running a simulation on stove I don't think we have the equity to 3-bet (my estimate of their ranges gives us about 31% equity and like u said we could be capped and then we are in real trouble). Calling makes sense if we think we can get that extra equity on the later streets which is reasonable with UTG+1 in the hand (also we have the blind money). Also, if button, SB and BB came in, that would probably be good for us, increasing our equity/player rate.