Post your thoughts on playing weak A3's and strong A4's.

[davebreal]

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These hands are especially interesting from the SB vs a HJ-BTN open raiser. I'm still kind of winging it here and 3betting if I have A4s or A3 + high card strength, cool calling most other A3s and mucking trashy A4s. I usually just cool call to avoid bloating the pot if BB is loose/bad and is calling a wide range if I 3bet.

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mucking A4s from the BB against possible steal attempt in an online games sounds extremely tight... do you think most mid-limit players do that? i'm curious.

not bloating the pot OOP seems smart to me. lately i've been colding-calling most AA5s and AA6s from the BB because in my experience most button raisers don't respect a 3-bet and will usually proceed after the flop anyways.