* It’s been a while- I lurk a little, but mostly out of practice.*

At ~24bb, in this situation, I’m not sure I’d ever just shove all in with any range of hands. I’d defend pretty wide, but not everything since they raised to 2.5bb, as youre likely up against a pretty wide range. AJ I’m torn between defending and 3b/folding. I’d expect a 4b shove from 99+, AQ+ at the least, and I don’t want to be a huge equity dog that often going all in. Villain probably doesn’t do a ton of flatting vs a 3b. 

Against a 30% opening range, AJo has 58% equity. A lot of what you’re beating will fold and while that’s +cEV, so is flatting. AQ and AK I’d 3b/call. I can come up with reasons for flatting, but readless I’m going with 3b/call. 

Another side effect of flatting AJ and stuff is that you don’t have a high 3bet % from the bb facing the open. If the opener doesn’t realize this, any error on their part with their 4betting range is going to have a big chip effect on you.

With KK here, I’m going to try inducing with a smallish 3b say 5.2bb. That way if it induces a call, you can cbet 3-5bb and induce a shove on a lot of flop textures. A preflop call builds the pot to ~12bb and stacks are ~19bb. A flop call makes the pot ~18bb and stacks ~16bb. A flop bet of 3bb makes the pot 15bb and the villain can try bluffing at it.

Flatting here sounds pretty awesome if you’re against a villain who is exploitably too aggressive. This stack size makes it pretty easy to get shoved on by the river.