Party 15/30 preflop question -- another AJo one

[Senor Choppy]

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The real answer isn't about just this hand. Its about all your hands. It's about a balanced approach to your game that leaves them always guessing.

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You can balance your game pretty well without taking a mediocre hand like AJ and calling down the guy that 3 bet you after the flop misses you in the worst possible way, when you're out of position. Save the call down for a Q high board or when you have AQ here, or whatever. The only thing to like here is that the hero raised 2 consecutive hands before this, which increases the likelihood of his opponent holding crap, but probably not by much.

8-1 here isn't that great given everything working against the hero here. The default play should be check-fold, exceptions to this should be far less than 50% of the time. I like capping it preflop if I'm going to put in more money with a flop this bad.