Basically as the hand gets better multiway you should be less likely to 3bet to isolate. Raising preflop for value in O8 should only be done with very very strong hands, like aces with a 2, 3, or 4 or an A234 or A23 or something like that. AJ83 is not a very strong hand but A3 is significantly stronger than A4 and ridiculously stronger than A5.
AK82 is a strongish hand but you don't have much counterfeit protection and it's hard to win a huge pot with it. You can typically make one big pair and the nut low to scoop someone but doing so in a 4 way pot is very very hard. A hand like A34J may not always make the nut low when it makes a low but if you do make the nut low you've likely got a gutshot and it would be very tough to counterfeit. Not to mention flopping an ace makes your hand pretty big in a lot of situations against loose players playing bad low hands like 5678 or something like that.
Everyone seems to have a different philosophy on how to play O8 so I'm not too worried about people gaining information on our ranges when we 3bet preflop and when we don't. In a tournament, stack size affects a lot of things so you can start coldcalling when people are playing tight even with your strong HU hands simply because you don't want to get 4bet and have to call down if you flop top pair on a really scary board.
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