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Flatting a raise with AA

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pokerpops:
Let"s say we"re on a table where 6 of the 9 are playing fairly snug.
There"s some dynamic with a couple of the other players - one (player A) is Button to my BB, the other (Player B) is Button to his BB.
Over about 8 orbits Player A has raised button every time it got to him unopened and a couple when it didn"t.
We"ve already 3bet vs our button and barreled flop and turn to get him to fold
We"ve also folded and 3bet folded to our button.
We haven"t had big hands

Fold to Player B who raises from hijack it folds to us and we have AA in the big blind.
Stack sizes are 30BB effective (me) Player B has close to double that

3bet or flat and why...

I"ve run into some big hands that have been hidden by flat calling raises lately and I"m trying to work out when/if this is a good idea.

Paulie_D:
I don"t think the stacks are deep enough to be tricky here but I can see why you might want to.

However, we"re out of position, I 3-bet with a view to jamming (obv) any 4 bet.

If he flats, I jam any flop and hope he thinks it"s a stop and go.

Erimus:
As above you want the chips in the middle pre if poss you are never folding on whatever flop normally, if you have 50 plus bigs can play it a bit more tricky.

Playing loads on Stars at the moment and the limp utg is very common with AA, KK reason being loads of aggro players will jam their 15/20 big blind stacks, off on a tangent there but hey ho.

This worked to my advantage yesterday when I hit trip Kings on the river, he couldn"t fold dem aces, oh and I flopped straight as well v AA both on final table, who said I don"t run good.

AMRN:
Playing this shallow, his opening range is often likely to be a little tighter than if we were playing 300bb deep...... so with that in mind, it"s more likely that he holds a hand which he will value-jam if you 3bet. With AA, with stacks this short, I prefer to try and get it all in pre - would hate to miss value from AK/AQ type hands that might shove pre.

George2Loose:
With so much history why would we flat>>>>3 bet? Surely u have built that dynamic for this very spot?

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