Leverage your preflop strength with small flop bets, but be prepared to shove turns to maximize fold equity with your overcards.
Flop Analysis
A small c-bet on this middling board is the preferred strategy. It allows us to maintain range pressure without over-committing on a texture that technically connects better with a caller's range.
**Ranges:** We hold the nut advantage with AA, KK, and QQ, while the Button's calling range is condensed into middling pairs like 99-JJ and suited connectors. Our small sizing forces their overcards and weakest pairs into a difficult spot.
**Sizing:** The 25% pot sizing is highly efficient in 4-bet pots. It keeps the SPR manageable while still denying equity to hands like KQ or AJ that are currently behind us.
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> **Takeaway:** In 4-bet pots, use small flop c-bets to leverage your overpair advantage on middling boards.
Turn Analysis
Checking here is a passive deviation. With an SPR of less than 1, our AKo functions best as a high-equity semi-bluff shove to maximize fold equity against the Button's marginal made hands.
**Math:** We have roughly 25% equity against the Button's range. By shoving, we only need a small amount of fold equity to make the play profitable, as we still have 6 outs to top pair if called.
**Plan:** When we check, we allow the Button to realize equity for free with hands like 99 or JJ, or potentially bluff us off our 6 outs. Shoving forces them to make a high-variance decision with hands that are currently beating us but hate the pressure.
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> **Takeaway:** When the SPR is near 1 in a 4-bet pot, overcards should often be shoved on the turn to maximize fold equity and realize their remaining equity.
Note: Checking is too passive; shoving maximizes fold equity against JJ-99 and Tx hands while we still have 25% equity.