HI, did a search on the topic of 3 betting polarized vs 3 betting linear and couldn't really find much.

So my question is why would someone 3 bet a polarized range as opposed to a linear range, or a linear range as opposed to polarized? What factors should we be considering?

thanks for any responses

how is our opponent responding to our 3bets?

if he calls too wide, a linear 3b strategy will be more effective as you can value own him postflop

if he folds a lot, consider using polarized 3b with blockers to his calling range

Interesting. Makes sense

So we know our our opponent overfolds to 3bets thereby were polarizing, what do we do our mid-range as in how do we not get exploited by playing a capped range pre-flop? I.E. someone opens from mp and we call with the middle of our range OTB, then someone from sb or bb has a squeeze opportunity vs our capped range ( although MP is not capped)

To take a simple example; we have an opponent that opens from mp (full ring game live), we have kjs otb. This would not qualify as a linear 3 bet, nor a polarized 3 bet, but if we flat were subject to a sb or bb squeeze and we end up having to play a capped range against a squeezer that knows were capped...that seems like a problem. I'm playing lower stakes, but even at low stakes a decent player would know your capped here.

As an afterthought where would sc's fit into this? Their neither value (linear) nor have blockers vs an opponents continuing range.

KJs is a linear 3bet but whatever, the question u ask how to exploit someoneone, and as soon as u discover how to exploit u are worried that a 3rd party will counter exploit u. This should not be your concern imo, if u are worried about everyone possible exploiting u ur better off playing GTO.

as per suited connectors, they are a decent flat vs either player type or can serve as the bottom of a pole (although no blockers )

Thanks for response, and good point, with regards to being worried about being exploited.

So you sit down at a low limit full ring table live (1-3 or 2-5), and someone (a complete random) now opens from UTG+1(as opposed to MP) to 3x, with effective 100BB stacks and your on the BTN with KJs, a GTO decision would be what? is this just as simple as a call?