For exemple, let's say that the button open roughly 50% of his hands and we are in the blinds. He'll flat vs a 3-bet with a range that look like this: QQ-66, AQs-A8s, KT+, QT+, JTs, AKo-ATo and 4-bet AA, KK, QQ, AKs how would you go about constructing your 3-bet range here ? Let's assume that BTN is a regular with normal postflop stats but he's not a particularly great player.

If I take a hand like KQ in the exemple above, it's going to be +EV to flat but it's also going to be +EV to 3-bet so which one should I chose ? Basically my question is how to create a 3-betting range. I pretty much understand why we want to 3-bet but hands selection is something I've not been able to find much information about.

Btn is continuing with ~16% of hands, meaning btn will fold 66% of the time. As such in the above example we can 3b nearly any two profitably

In general though in constructing the above example we want to 3b a pretty polarized range. Even though mathematically 3b a hand like J8o there would probably be profitable, vs a 50% opener we likely do better by flatting it. Also, postflop tendencies of villain are pretty important. If villain is super aggro, the ev of flatting will tend to go down just because we miss most of the time. If villain is passive, villain will be easy to play against post and we will likely be able to get to showdowns easier etc. If villain is stationy in 3b pots then the ev of 3betting some strong hands will go up dramatically while weak hands will decrease. These are just some general 3b theory ideas to think about when you consider what to 3b when.

For disclosure, I'm a husng player so you will have to consider how to adapt this both to the tablesize of the game you play and the depth of stacks (even playing turbos, stacks for me are never >75bb), but the theory is the same -- you just have to consider how to put it into practice.

This! The only hands I'm NOT 3 betting are QQ+ and AQ+.


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