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I'm fine with calling. AKs plays awesome and we're deep. 4-betting for value and to regain initiative is fine also, but I wouldn't go that big... I don't think with the min-3-bet type that it's optimal to try to size it so you force a nuclear all-in confrontation.
As much as he 3-bets, and based on recent experience, I would hazard a guess that he does this with a lot of raising hands because he doesn't really know what to do, or understand that calling is a fine choice. I sat with a nimrod the other night that min-3-bet me three times over about 80 hands, and the two times we got to showdown he had KQ and AJ. So I don't think it's necessarily indicative of great strength. In fact my theory is that there's a growing number of players out there for whom 3-betting means something entirely different from what it means for standard/decent players, including almost everyone that posts on FTR. I think they see people doing it and have started doing it too, but I don't think they get what it traditionally meant ("I have you crushed") or what it means now when two good players do it to each other ("I may have you crushed or I may be telling you to back the fuck off, and good luck figuring out which one it is right now, sucker"). With these guys it means "Oh my hand is two big cards - is time for raise?"
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