$10 NLHE 6-max: AQo OOP 3bet pot wet flop

$10 NL HE 6-max: AQo OOP 3bet pot wet flop

poker stars $0.05/$0.10 No Limit Hold'em - 5 players - View hand 723189
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Hero (SB): $10.05
Ramanand (BB): $10.00
askillz2 (UTG): $16.30
Th3012 (CO): $6.45
SMYK1961 (BTN): $10.00

Pre Flop: ($0.15) Hero is SB with A Q
askillz2 raises to $0.30, Th3012 calls $0.30, 1 fold, Hero raises to $1.20, 2 folds, Th3012 calls $0.90

Flop: ($2.80) 8 T 9 (2 players)
Hero ???

Just joined this table so absolutely no reads. Something tells me this guys a fish especially how he just called a raise and then just calls my 3bet. Do I just c/f this flop?

Yes.

Smashes his range, your equity sucks, you have no fold equity....so yeah.

fish, its obvious.
Why not b/f though? This flop is pretty intimdating for the fish as well.

Skaplun said:

fish, its obvious.
Why not b/f though? This flop is pretty intimdating for the fish as well.

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Fish don't look at these flops as intimidating. The see middle cards, maybe a flush draw. Even if they do they still call with all draws (lots of them) any pair etc. It's a massive part of their range and you have no fold equity, betting is wasting money, you might even bink a J, so check/fold is optimal.

LuckyChippy said:

Fish don't look at these flops as intimidating. The see middle cards, maybe a flush draw. Even if they do they still call with all draws (lots of them) any pair etc. It's a massive part of their range and you have no fold equity, betting is wasting money, you might even bink a J, so check/fold is optimal.

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Very good point. A fish will feel he is committed to staying in the hand with a wide range of gut shots(JQ, JK, 9J, etc), any pair above 88, any flush draw, maybe even AK! Given the stack sizes and the fact that you're OOP, a bet of $2.00 or so on the flop has a good chance of provoking a shove from CO. I agree with the check/fold being the optimal strategy. This helps your metagame as well. Nothing wrong with feeding a shortstacked fish a little more confidence.

Best thing you can do here is check/fold