Pty 10/20 Weak fold?

[Magikist]

No. Incorrect. You need to make flop 3-bets like this sometimes. When you need to do this depends on the opponent and your image, but 3-betting a flop like this is not always bad.

Also, allowing someone to value bet you with bottom pair all the way is generally terrible. In a 5-handed game against any reasonably tricky/decent player, you usually need to be seeing a showdown w/ AK on an 8c7h2c flop.

If 3-betting the flop lets you see a free showdown, than you save half a bet against a pair, as opposed to calling down.

In addition, you can't always rely on players to continue betting the river with their bluffs, thus costing you another half of a bet.

3-betting also gives you a lot of flexibility. It gives you a chance to take a free card on the turn and induce a river bluff, or you can take a free card and fold unimproved.

If you are constantly losing initiative to a flop c/r from a BB defender on a board like this with AK, you are playing losing poker. Calling down is only the best option against a minority of players at the 10/20.

** Also, one of the most important points - a BB defender will often c/r a flop like this with very marginal holdings or complete air. If you simply call down and allow him to continue on and spike the river and value bet you where he would have otherwise folded to a flop 3-bet, turn bet (or at least not value bet you when you check behind on the river), that is a HUGE mistake.