Re: Why 3bet?
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I really don't like 3-betting with AJo. Your hand is good against his button opening range, yeah; but your hand is also [censored] against his 3-bet calling range. So you're turning your hand into a bluff, and bloating the pot if you do get called. I'd prefer to call preflop and c/r a lot of flops.
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Yes, no and no.
Your hand is good but not good enough to call because you need to hit with it. This does not happen very often and the vast majority of the time your gonna be folding the best hand to a cbet. Even if you hit, you never hit a monster and being OOP you have no idea where you are in the hand.
AJ is not [censored] against his calling range since there are thousands of bad regulars calling in this spot with pp and sc for "implied odds" and because "they have position". They don't play their hand properly in this post and just fold any flop that did not hit them. Either this, or they call very tightly and then you rake big profit by simply picking up their preflop raise.
And if his steal range is approaching 30%, it includes T6s and 87o. How is this a bluff?
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Notice I said c/r a lot of flops. Clearly he's gonna have trash a lot of the time, but when he calls our 3-bet it folds out every hand that we dominate and gets us against a much tighter range.
Knowing how light he calls 3-bets would help this situation, but I assume he's folding most hands to a 3-bet and calling/4-betting with the top end of his range.
You also notice that you said he has trash a lot of the time, and we'll never flop good to continue - we don't need to really because it's likely he won't have a hand either.
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