Poker Strategies
After receiving pocket cards, you are immediately faced with a choice: play your cards and either raise or call the blinds, or fold.
Practice Matters
If you do 3-bet suited and offsuited connectors
If you do 3-bet suited and offsuited connectors it's a bit more difficult to navigate post flop when you do flop a hand. Say you're in the same situation as the previous example except this time you have 6s7s and you decide to 3-bet. The flop comes and you flop a 6, you continuation bet and your opponent calls. The turn brings no help. You have a pair of 6's, but you could be quite a bit behind since your opponent’s flatting range is going to have a lot of 77+ hands in it. Your opponent could have floated, and you could have a good equity advantage, but are you check / calling at this point? This situation is still manageable of course, but it's going to consistently put you in a lot more difficult situations, when there are better situations to really master first.
All of this reasoning is irrelevant
All of this reasoning is irrelevant if your opponent opens really wide, and folds to a 3-bet a high percentage of the time. Keep in mind, that if you're using a HUD, an opponent's fold to 3-bet will be much less when re-defending their open button in most cases. Typically speaking, the time for a situational stat like fold to 3- bet from button defend will take too long to normalize. However, it may provide some clues if it's an extremely high or low number in a reasonable sample.