First off, 300 hands is meaningless. I 4table 10NL RUSH pretty often and 300 hands = ~20min. of play.

You got the right idea with wanting to be IP as much as possible, as well as the preflop aggressor. I think the fault in your thought process is wanting to go out of your way to create these situations, rather than waiting for the right ones to come around (which they come around more than enough). There is nothing wrong with flatting small pp's and folding when you hit a set (at the micros). Obviously, your sample size is so small that you probably stacked someone w/ a set once, if at all. Over a large sample size it smooths out.

3 betting mid pp's and AQ is very villain and situation specific. 3betting mid pp's, at best you are going to get called by two overs and be flipping, or called by a bigger pair. If you think villain might call w/ a hand like KJ, then 3betting AQ may be profitable at times, but not always. Polarizing our 3betting range and 3betting hands like 55 is more something that we want to do when in blind stealing battles. For example: a nitty reg w/ an ATS of 47% opens for 3x on the BTN when folded to him. SB folds and we have 55 in the BB. Set mining here is worthless b/c you aren't going to get paid off since villain most likely doesn't have a hand. 3bet and take it down pf.


The fact that you're losing money w/ mid pp's is probably due to your sample size. The most important thing with them is getting rid of them quickly when you detect your beat, and extracting max value when you flop a set. Having good postflop skills and being able to hand read also helps w/ playing them against nitty regs, and you can turn a slight profit w/o flopping sets. All in all, there is no need to 3bet them IP in order to turn a profit. If you're 3betting 99 and get called, you pretty much have to fold to any action on a Q+ high flop, again, at these stakes.

Vs. an UTG open and MP caller, if players are decent, there is nothing wrong with folding AQ pre from LP.