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Originally Posted by Lordofklock01
Hero is on the button with KQo. Thought about 3Betting here for Value, but Utg+1 has about 90 and could shuffle in.
My thought prozess was, i just fold out worse hands and keep the hands that dominates me in. Like to 3bet here with suited connectors.
This is pretty confused thinking imo, for starters you can never threebet for value because KQo is not going to be ahead of his raising range. Then the "fold out worse hands and keep the hands that dominate me in" is not thinking that applies particularly well to preflop. Postflop, if we bet and the only hands they fold are hands we were beating, that's not a good result, because if we let them see the next street for free they only get one card. Preflop, if we let them see the next street for free they get three cards, which is more likely to drastically change the situation. Unless we have a big pair it's rarely a bad result if everyone folds to us preflop.
The other thing is that even if that reasoning applied, there are plenty of better hands he can fold (random aces, pocket pairs).
Suited connectors aren't actually that great to threebet pre, they're OK but wouldn't be my first choice. The temptation is to construct our ranges the same way we do preflop - meaning value raising both good hands and bad but not hopeless hands, and flatting with the middling stuff. But when light threebetting, removal effects tend to be more important, so suited aces are probably the best light threebetting hand, and stuff like KQo is also pretty decent.