AQ off a tricky hand.. a winning hand?

should overall statistically aq off be a winning hand. Should You play in in all positions or just middle and late. If someone reraises you preflop,(usually I'll fold) or if you miss the flop completely. (fold again) But overall are you making money on this hand or not.

aq is a great hand and mostly a winning hand.

i always play this hand, limping under the gun and middle position,
and raising from late positions if only got limpers, but call raisers in
late position also.

Never limp UTG or MP.

If it's FR, I'd consider laying down UTG/UTG+1 unless suited and raising later positions, whereas in 6max I'm raising it from any position.

Whether to flat call an opening raise or 3 bet depends on the villain/number of villains - if it's been limped to you it's worth squeezing, and if there's been an opening raise from a loose player I'd think about 3 betting to try and take it down, especially if OOP in the blinds.

I hate AQ. It makes too good top pair hands to easily fold ,but usually not good enough to win a big pot. I play it when I have position and I usually fold it every time in the blinds or UTG,UTG+1...

I read somewhere (I think maybe Ryan Fee's guide to 6 max) that you should only 3 bet with AQ if you intend on calling a shove.

I think his reasoning is that if you 3 bet/fold you are throwing money away with a hand that is fundamentally strong enough to play by calling and playing postflop.

Discuss.

Yeah if you 3-bet with it and plan to fold to a 4-bet, you're turning it into a bluff effectively. If you're flatting 4-bets, you're just bad. So I'm usually calling. Same applies with AJ, KQ... And TT, actually... And sometimes JJ...

Exception: Some maniac fish doesn't like folding to 3-bets and doesn't like 4-betting... He just likes to flat 3-bets even when he's OOP. Here we 3-bet for value IP with the top of our linear range (i.e. KJs+, AJo+, TT+) and we stop polarising our 3-betting range (no SC's, low-mid PPs...)