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
In general
In general it's best to use a standard 3-betting strategy until you have players at your table identified. Your goal with an applied pressure 3-betting strategy should be to isolate the weaker players, and force your better opponents into making mistakes, or reacting poorly against your 3-bets. If you do this effectively you'll have a wider 3-betting range in these situations and at the tables where it makes the most sense. An ideal 3-betting percentage when employing a standard 3-betting strategy with a polarized range should be somewhere between 7–9%. When using an applied pressure 3-betting strategy, your 3-bet percentage can be anywhere from 10–15% on average.
3-Bet Calling Ranges
3-Bet Calling Ranges As I'm sure you know, defending against 3- bets can be quite difficult in a lot of situations. It's especially true when you hold a hand that would be in a quasi 3-betting range itself. Calling, folding, or 4-betting can all be close decisions at times. How you properly vet out which decision will the highest EV line can be the difference between being a marginal winner/loser, and crushing the games.