Laak and Esfandiari fold AQ UTG

[Ron Burgundy]

Laak and Esfandiari were guests on Loveline (it was the Sept 19th show if you want to listen to the whole thing.)

A guy calls in and asks if he should quit his job and turn pro. He'd been beating his local 5/10NL game for a while. So Antonio says "if you're UTG with AQo, what do you do?" The guy says he'd usually raise 3x. Antonio says "wrong, don't turn pro. You have to fold that." I guess that's his litmus test for turning pro.

I've been raising AQ UTG my whole life and it's worked pretty well for me. I know most of you would raise AQ UTG as well.

So either:

a) Laak and Esfandiari suck at poker
b) Live games are so much different than online that folding AQ is correct in a live game
c) All of the above