An advantage of the auto-bet is that you're impossible to read. Tommy would bet blind here. I'm not sure if this makes up for the disadvantage you point out.


I find that players who are one-on-one are, paradoxically, less likely to call an auto-bet on the flop when you've 3-bet than when you've 2-bet preflop.


In the small blind, does one prefer to be head-up having 3-bet with QJ or against 2 players having merely called the button's raise? I find playing QJ from the small blind distasteful to begin with, so I prefer to invest as little as possible. So I'm probably the wrong one to be responding here.