Massimo...

[kevster]

As play got underway, Max surely didn’t just catch cards, he played to earn his stack. Early on, he raised to 24,000 preflop and was called by Pawel Sanojca. The flop came 44K rainbow and Max bet 35,000. Pawel raised 50,000 more and after some time, Max raised 50,000 more; clicking it back! Pawel tanked for a bit before folding and Max tabled Q9 for just queen high.

Max, can you elaborate on thuis hand a little. Thx.

[Deanglow]

This opponent was just really terrible and picked bad spots for aggression.

[DaNutsInYoEye]

I don't know the entire scenario but, just based on that, it's so hard for the guy to have a huge hand on this board. A king is such a small % of his range and he almost never has a 4, thus the majority of the time he is either flat out bluffing or has a had like 77. I don't know stack sizes but I'm thinking that they were such that just calling the 3-bet with a hand such as 77 would be horrible and pushing would turn it into a bluff.

Against a polarized range heavily weighted towards bluffs the min 3-bet accomplishes the same as a larger one. Assuming what I think stack sizes were around at this point, villain would have to be pretty sick to re-bluff over the top.