Struggling with AQ in late position

[Houbi37]

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

 

[Station_Master]

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)

 

[dannystanks]

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.

 

[puzzlefish]

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

 

[Houbi37]

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

No,what's?

 

[fundiver199]

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.