AQs 3bet pot IP

Why would u 3bet this preflop? I just flat. I don't mind a 3bet if you fear a lot of calls from the blinds, but in general, I prefer to just flat.

Yeah, I cbet less, about 200. After the flop c/c, I am just looking to check it down. If he never folds on cbets, you can also barrel this turn. You build up the pot when you hit, get a free river showdown when you don't and also protect against some hands that have equity vs you. So if he rarely folds on cbets, making one cbet makes no sense.

Wouldn't a smaller cbet be quite exploitable? Besides the hand we have, I do not see many hands cbet small.

I guess with Kx or 88 (we could hardly represent 33) we would want to protect against a possible FD. BB and MP3 still have possibly AJs+ in their hands. Besides, we want to extract value with such hands.

Assuming that we cbet between 1/2 and 2/3 with Kx and 88; we basically are showing the stength of our hand. We could possibly have AA but that's it. So if Villain figures that out, he could raise/fold extremely profitably against us.

Could you comment on this?

If we are speaking about 3bet pots, my default cbet sizing will be around 1/3 of the pot to 40%.

So, it depends a lot on what range we put our opponent on. Ofc, if we have AA on 974ss vs a fish, I am gonna cbet bigger to protect/get value. If the board is dry, I believe we need to bet small with our value and with our bluffs. Value-because we induce calls with worse/bluffs and we don't have to worry about protecting our hand as much and bluffs-because we get a much better price on them and we have more room postflop to pick up different lines.
If we play fishes-I wouldn't worry about being unbalanced at all. I don't care, I wanna exploit them, not play a balanced strategy. So, this is a dry board. He def. doesn't have many 8x, neither he has 4x and I don't see many suited stuff either to worry about a FD much. He is raising 22% and he's a fish. He prolly raises any Ax first, pairs, broadway(and that's more than 22%) and then starts thinking about 86s.

Alright, thanks. To which extent do you trust Villain's stats since hero has played only 60 hands against him?

Just to get some general ideas-he's a fish, he's on the looser side. And because he's a fish, he would like to play any Ax(which is about 14-15%).