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I think a case can be made for calling preflop.

If you 3-bet you will freeze up the action on A high flops and not get paid much by non SD bound players. By calling you will still raise A high flops but its more likely that villain will go to SD cuz a flop raise for some reason indicates less strength than the preflop 3-bet.

If you 3-bet you will also bloat the pot making it more profitable for villain to take shots postflop and have Hero folding incorrectly.

If you call preflop a lot of villains will at least 2nd barrel worse hands before giving up. You can still use your position to see a SD cheaply and/or fold to a 2nd or 3'rd barrel, again 3-betting makes it more difficult to get away from the hand postflop.


I like 3-betting LAGs but against a straightfoward TAG I would rather just call. For obvious reasons I think calling is much better with A3 than with AJ.