I thought most of your post was v good, and this is a trivial point but I always have to disagree w/ this. I used to think the same thing, but what usually ends up happening is you squeeze the reg out, the fish flats anyways, and you get heads-up w/ a fish in a bloated pot. It is annoying as the opener though obv.

This was kind of my thought. Not that we necessarily need a huge bluffing range at NL100, but I still think even most bad regs notice how strong most ppl's range is when we 3b. I was just getting a ton of folds in these spots, so I thought: "hey...why not bluff here a little more often?"

I dont think 3bing is bad, I think 3bing sc's is a poor choice for hand to 3b tho

There are some regs who are super exploitable in these spots.

Who said we have to fold vs 4bets?

yet another thread assures me the games will never get bad

If he is std tight reg why would he not have positional anomalies with his fold to 3b? Why would it ever be as high as 60% in EP.

If he knows that you recognise him as he seems on what freq do we expect to face a 4b and fold?

I'd have more joy flatting and exploiting flops in position maybe with a priced in blind

AA, KK & the top of your suited connecting fold range.

I also couldn't recover my screen name. sigh

3b AA/KK/AK (if he calls wideish otherwise flat)/Q8s
cawl JJ-QQ and some suited broadways if he's that wide

depending on stakes and opponent its not that often necessary to balance ranges with some bluffs

just to be clear brt, you think regs at midstakes flat a lot in that spot (maybe entire continuing range), correct?

I thought this was meant as a joke...until I tried it for a couple of sessions. Surprisingly effective.