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 Originally Posted by MarinaD
Is it better to 4bet this hand preflop? I have only a few villain hands.
You have 188 hands on Villain, and all those pretty colorful numbers and you can't congeal it into any read at all on Villain?
Honest, serious questions:
Why do you use the numbers?
What do they gain you?
I'm not asking about people, in general. I'm asking about you.
Originally Posted by MarinaD
What's your std play in this typical spot preflop when you don't have info?
I haven't found myself in a preflop spot without info since I was 8 years old.
Does your Villain play poker? NLHE? Yes? Where is he playing?
What does that tell you?
Bang! There's a read.
Does your Villain have chips? Yes? How many?
What does that tell you?
Bang! There's another.
I never even saw him dealt one card and already I have two solid pieces of information that can lead me to generalized reads. I will adjust as necessary.
I refuse to start at 0. I refuse to let any aspiring poker player say they have "no info" on Villain and get away with it. I (perhaps over-zealously) see it as laziness, but I accept that it is more a knee-jerk reaction to not knowing where to start.
Please forgive any assertive tone on my part. 
Originally Posted by MarinaD
Is it better to 4bet this hand preflop? I have only a few villain hands.
What's your std play in this typical spot preflop when you don't have info?
There is no way to answer if it's better to 4-bet PRE w/o any context at all. I am not trying to be harsh. I just want to clear the air of the notion that there is a "correct" play in poker. Unless you can see Villain's cards, there is no unquestionably correct play.
That said, I generally treat AKs like KK+ PRE. If you get called by { JJ-, AKo } often enough, it easily justifies the times you run into KK+. ALSO, you'll be more likely to be called when you have KK+ if Villains know you will go full aggro PRE with AKs.
However, if you have a strong read that - if you raise, then it allows Villain to play perfectly against you - then you must NOT raise.
Again. There is no 'standard' play. If you treat the game of poker as though you only need to learn a set of rules and you will win, then you will not win. Maybe you can crush the micros with that method, but eventually you will face creative and intelligent Villains who will see right through your 'standard routine.'
Originally Posted by MarinaD
as played postflop....what do you suggest??
OTF: I'm happy to get it in. I think a x/r is a fine play, but I don't mind donking into the pre-flop raiser, either. I would estimate which has a more likely chance to get more of Villain's chips into the pot and make that play.
OTT or OTR: If villain continued past the flop then the runout smacks the low portion of his range. Straights get there, flushes get there, lots of 2-pair combos that will continue OTF get there. Even taking into account Villain's 3-bet from HJ PRE, which significantly reduces, if not eliminates, that low part of this range... even then... his continued aggression is saying he has a strong hand. What on that board is strong? You have TPTK... are you hoping for a chopped pot? Is any sensible Villain doing this with QQ-?
I mean... if you honestly had no reads, then assuming sensibility in Villains until you see otherwise is the safest course of action.
I'm done with TPTK against a strong line and almost always folding OTR.
All of this assumes a competent player on whom I have no fishy reads as pertains to over-valuing hands or running big bluffs OTR when he misses draws.
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