Interesting hand. Preflop I think shove or flat is a much easier strategy, given he opened utg and you are utg +1 I think either is quite reasonable. You only have 24 big blinds.
The river is really bad for you, you lose to all 7x hands of which you block none and may call given your small 3bet, and obviously you chop with all worse aces. Its kind of hard to construct a bluffing range for your opponent. Did the turn complete the rainbow board? If so then for your opponent to be bluffing he needs to be turning a hand with almost zero equity into a two street bluff. The only hands I can think of that would be ok to do with are TQ or TJ, both of which are gutshots and block your potential call downs, however you block both of these. The next best bluff hand would be a 7x hand, given it has equity but no real showdown value.
How many Ax hands are you 3betting preflop? How many kx hands are you 3betting preflop? Villain is shoving for 140k into 300k, so your MDF (minimum defence frequncy) is roughly 70%. If you have plenty of kings in your range, it might be reasonable to fold all kings and call all aces. If you rarely have kings then you could split your aces into those that block his bluffs and those that block 7x hands - so A7 is a much better call than AJ, but again it depends how many combinations of Ax you can get here with. Are you checking back sets and AK here? If so then AQ might be far enough down in your range you can safely fold.
Also, thinking exploitatively- this board smashes your range and not this (he can never have AK, he rarely has AA/kk), so you don't really need to defend light since he shouldn't be attacking you light and you will often have near nut hands to call down with.
The river is really bad for you, you lose to all 7x hands of which you block none and may call given your small 3bet, and obviously you chop with all worse aces. Its kind of hard to construct a bluffing range for your opponent. Did the turn complete the rainbow board? If so then for your opponent to be bluffing he needs to be turning a hand with almost zero equity into a two street bluff. The only hands I can think of that would be ok to do with are TQ or TJ, both of which are gutshots and block your potential call downs, however you block both of these. The next best bluff hand would be a 7x hand, given it has equity but no real showdown value.
How many Ax hands are you 3betting preflop? How many kx hands are you 3betting preflop? Villain is shoving for 140k into 300k, so your MDF (minimum defence frequncy) is roughly 70%. If you have plenty of kings in your range, it might be reasonable to fold all kings and call all aces. If you rarely have kings then you could split your aces into those that block his bluffs and those that block 7x hands - so A7 is a much better call than AJ, but again it depends how many combinations of Ax you can get here with. Are you checking back sets and AK here? If so then AQ might be far enough down in your range you can safely fold.
Also, thinking exploitatively- this board smashes your range and not this (he can never have AK, he rarely has AA/kk), so you don't really need to defend light since he shouldn't be attacking you light and you will often have near nut hands to call down with.
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