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okay so yah steve you definitely want to 3bet. we are ahead of the opener's range. we are ahead of each flatter's range. what we're not ahead of is 4 similar ranges against us at once. a 3bet here accomplishes two things i can think of. if you know youll always be called by at least one person with a wider range than AQ, than we know we're value betting, so there's number 1. number 2 is youre thinning the field. a lot of times you're going to whiff the flop and take it down with a cbet. every time you miss and still cbet/win, you're making money from the preflop call. if we only had one caller, you could 3b this small though i'd still probably prefer it to be a little bigger since we start with 125bb. i also learned jordan cristos 3bets massive when 50bb+ and while i haven't heard an explanation for it, that guys not just some donk so there has to be a reason there somewhere. anyway, when you make it 277, it only costs the next person to act 197 chips, and each caller is going to increase % chance that the following player will call as well. i prefer making it more like a pot sized raise, maybe a little shy, in order to get probably the last person to call the original raise to be our only caller, where he'll just fold the flop mostly anyway. if anyone has pairs, they're probably still calling most reasonable 3bets.

as played, i think his minraise can't be 55 JJ AA because if he flopped 55 or JJ he'd probably flat the flop unless he's afraid of draws more than he should be and he can't have AA. since we're readless, i'm going to assume he won't raise a set on the flop because most people seem to be aware enough to not do that. i suppose it could be AK but i would think someone with Ak in this spot would 4b, but i don't know if randoms 4b even AK.

that leaves AJ A5s that beat you. AQ seems plausible too trying to prevent low flushes from drawing.

then there's also KQhh, QThh, maybe 34hh 

sorry losing steam on this one haha. not sure what else to say. hope this helps!

the reason i advocate 3betting and doing it bigger isn't so much that it's a turbo, but that we have a stronger hand than the openers range, the flatters' ranges, and we don't do well against all of those combined unless we flop well. by 3betting, we take initative from the opener and likely put it in our hands for postflop. we are bloating the pot with a bigger 3bet, but that's because we have all those flatters in for 2bb who will always call a few more. when we 3bet a little bigger, we get ideally fewer calls and have the betting impetus and can usually take the hand down postflop. when we get raised on that flop, i think more often than anything else it's like AJ, but idk it's sort of hard to flop well haha. but yah, best case is he's spewing. it's bovada and you will see spew, but to expect it as the norm is probably not our best strategy early in a tournament.