Good Fold or Getting Run Over?

[FishSticks]

The converter I usually use is down, so I'll go manual.

Villain is pretty tough, runs 24/20/5 or so. He has 3bet my button raise about 3 times in the last 100 hands or so, and each time I've folded. Effective stacks are 150BB.

I picked up AQo (no clubs) on the button, I went to 3.50 (addictive bet pot button on UB) and he repopped me to 11, and this time I called. I don't know what you all think of this call, but I was getting tired of getting my button raises abused (it wasn't like every button raise, but enough that I knew his range wasn't just JJ+/AK, etc.). Standard call? Ever 4bet this?

Flop comes down AT7 all clubs. Pot is about 22 bucks, and he leads out for 25. I had not seen him overbet the pot like this before.

What do you guys make of this? Easy fold? Why do you think he overbets this? I thought he was either looking to make sure a draw didn't call, was cbetting with KK-JJ with a club, or given our depth he wanted to get a big pot brewing and trap AK with something like AT/TT/KcQc/etc.

Any thoughts are welcome, on this situation and how you deal with guys like this coming over your button raises often in general.

[DaCooler]

honestly, if hes pushing me around this much, i probably put in a raise here, the call i think is fine preflop, even if you do get beat at least itll show him youll put some money in without the nuts.

[Dan Bitel]

I would probably 4bet preflop. With AQs I might be a tiny bit more inclined to just call.

I think that if we are calling preflop, we cant really fold on this flop, even a monotone flop vs an overbet. So I call once and see what happens

[FishSticks]

Dan,

Thanks for the response. Would you flat call if we were 100BB deep instead of 150? The reason I ask is the pot is up to like 75BB when I call the flop bet, etc, so it's still relatively easy to get away if he bets again given we're a bit deeper.

I assume see what happens means check it down and fold to any further bets?

[RiverHebrew2]

Call and reeval turn. Most likely something like QT with a club or JT with a club, aybe even K7 with K of clubs. I actually go on calldown mode to 2/3 pot bets or so unless club peels off or board pairs. Coudl very sell be something like KJ with a club, for a combo draw. You COULD raise for value and for info, and fold to repop. I don't think you should fold this hand without playing out later streets, esp since kinda unknown villain and fairly aggressive.

[Dan Bitel]

fish,

if we are 100BBs deep, I would only be calling preflop, if I'm pushing this flop.

As played, yeah, I'm prob folding to a turn bet

[FishSticks]

I ended up folding. I felt that since was the first time I had played back at all to his preflop stealing, he'd give me some credit, and the overbet and the situation just felt trappy. Afterwards I felt like he might have just put me on a mid pair and he was just making the obvious cbet with ATC into a scary looking board. Meh.