Struggling with AQ in late position

I’ve been unsure lately about how to handle AQ offsuit in late position when the blinds are aggressive 3-bettors. Do you guys stick to a standard open, or do you tighten up in these spots? Curious to hear how more experienced players approach it

AQ is way too strong to not open from late position. Facing 3bets i would generally be 4bet bluffing at 100bb folding to a 5bet shove.

If you are playing mtts then i imagine 4bet shoving is fine at 40 or 50bb v aggressive 3bettors (i'm not an MTT player though)

I am still doing my standard raise here no problem with AQ. If they 3 bet we can 4 bet or call and see the flop. We have the advantage being in position they don’t, so that’s going to help us if they are over aggressive.

Did you try what we suggested in the last thread about this?

puzzlefish said:

Avez-vous essayé ce que nous avons suggéré dans le dernier sujet de discussion à ce propos ?

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No,what's?

You asked the same question in another thread recently. As I wrote there we pretty much always open AQ with no previous action. Even if we are UTG 9-handed. If there are agressive 3-bettors in the blinds, we can adjust to that by tightening up a bit. But this means open folding hands, that we would need to fold facing a 3-bet. Hands like A3o or J9o. AQ can easily call a 3-bet in position or even 4-bet, so we are not even unhappy to face 3-bets from the blinds. And certainly not if they are 3-betting wide.