[Peleus]

Disclaimer- I don't play at these level's, and I can't play, so do the opposite I advise.

AQ is a nice hand to be involved in, but its pretty flop dependent. You're probably better to have a higher SPR against the full stack and a good SPR against the two smaller stacks.

Looking at preflop -
If you called the bet, we would have (if I'm reading HH right) 3 villains $14 pot.

MP1 - $37.75 (SPR 2.7)
BTN - $106.80 (SPR 7.6)
SB - $44.25 (SPR 3.2)

Here we see we've got the best SPR against all 3 opponents for a top pair type hand, all within the SPR of 2-8 range. It gives you movement with betting and not making people go all in from pot odds, gives you a chance to be aggressive if you like, or dump it if you don't hit and don't feel confident going further. Almost the best situation would be calling preflop instead of raising.


What we did though was raise it up with a 3 bet, which has got you into a bit of a tough spot. Now we're in the situation of (I'm assuming button folded)-

SB - $29.75 (SPR of 0.7)

I guess best play would probably be take the free card and hope one of your 6 outs comes. Any type of cbet basically puts the villain all in. I can't see him folding for the odds he is getting. I wouldn't be surprised to see the SB shove the turn if you take the free card as taking the free card shows weakness, which I'd probably fold too if no help came.


Cliff notes - I'd probably prefer to be in a multiway pot with AQ, which I can get away from easily if I don't connect, with movement in my stack to be a bit more agressive if I choose, rather then raise it up and be in a pot commited hand, with a short stack who is most likely going to push with anything.

As played, take the free card, and hope for help, fold to agression.