50 - odd spot with AQ (TPTK=push/fold?)

[SoulPower]

Fold preflop for this exact reason. Your going to continually find yourself in these difficult spots OOP. You flopped TPTK and still are don't know what to do.

[boycalledroy]

This is such a simple fold preflop I don't understand the discussion. Called w/ AQ last night to a Btn 3bet off a guy who was 25/15, flop came AQx, I bet, he called, I bet turn on a blank, he puhed, I called, he flopped over AA.

AQ does not work in a 3bet pot ever. If they have KK and it comes A high you are screwed, if they have AA/KK/AK and it comes QQx a decent player will smell something and get the hell out.

[prodonkey]

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dunno why this thread has so many posts

fold preflop, but it's not a disastrous call

doing anything but folding this flop is hilariously bad.

I PUT HIM ON AK!

....AND THE OTHER GUY TOO.

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Hey I've actually said that to myself before.. lol

[Check_The_Nuts]

I would sandwich taggro here with a bet on the flop, trying to squeeze him out. You can't really check/call even if he bets, dummy folds. If the flop gets checked through, and it goes to the turn your good like 90% of the time, but hopefully the tag knows not to let that happen very often.

A lot of this hinges on how good the tag and how bad the spew guy are. If the spew-guy will peel the flop with a bunch of trash, and the tag knows that, then checking is obviously best because it forces the tag to turn his hand faceup. However if spewtank is something like 70% fold, then he's gunna bet AK/AQ/KK/AA.

Btw: someone said earlier if villians range is AK/AA/KK, well obviously if thats his range preflop you should fold. Your hand is terrible against that range.

Basically IMO your hand only beats bluffs from the TAG but beats most of the spewtank's calling range. So I would just bet out to see if the tag beats me, and for value for the spewtank.