Playing AQ preflop at 10nl (general strategy question)

[allinonadraw]

What's the best way to play AQ preflop at 10nl? Obviously, if you're first in or following limpers, you raise, but how do you respond to a reraise? What about if there's a raise in front of you? Just curious, b/c judging by my pt stats over the last 50k hands, this is one hand I'm really misplaying...

[toymach776]

If there is a raise in front of you and you have AQ then your action should be highly dependent on your read. Players at 10NL do some vary strange things like constantly minraising preflop with strange hands, making raises that are too small etc, making raises that are too big, etc. Just watch opponents tendencies and AQ will be farly easy to play at this limit.

As far as getting reraised with AQ, I find that few 10NLers will 3 bet a hand that is behind to AQ. This is a general observation and not true at all times of course. There are plenty of wackos at 10NL. Observing opponents general tendencies at this level will make AQ fairly easy to play.

[jetsetboy]

In front of a raise don't hesitate to 3b it if initial raiser has a wide range. To define his range you should took into account his pfr stat and his steal attempt stat to know if he is positional aware. If his range is too short to allow a 3b just fold it.

If you get 3b by anybody but a maniac just fold.

[WantToLearn]

I never play AQ when a solid player raises in front of me.

[BotOnTilt]

I think I started to win more with hand like AJ/AQ when I realized that the worst thing I can do is to flat call a raise with them.

If the villain raises a lot of hands I'll re-raise from position or from the blinds and possible fold to a 4-bet depending on my reads. This especially works well if its the button who opened and you think his range is very wide. Often I just fold it if the villain seems tight, the problem as you probably have found out is that if the flop comes Q-high you might still not have the best hand and if its Ace-high you can have kicker problems.

[allinonadraw]

Thanks for the responses guys, much appreciated.

[allinonadraw]

One more question...with AQ or AQs in position vs unknown raisers in early/middle pos., what's our line? Is either reraise or fold close to the same in terms of EV? What about with AJ/AJs?