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
Typically speaking
Typically speaking we'd all prefer to play in a re-raised pot, or any pot, when we have position. In a re-raised pot with marginal hands it's not as simple as saying to fold most of your hands out of position, and call in position. Typically most opponents will have a wider 3-betting range in position, and quite a bit tighter out of position. So like most texas hold'em poker decisions, where you open from (and how often), and where your opponent 3-bets from (and how often) will be of the upmost importance in determining a 3-bet calling range.
Easy Folds to 3-bets
Easy Folds to 3-bets There are some very obvious spots to dump a hand, and some obvious spots to continue. There aren't static rules to defending against a 3-bet, but some situations are clear cut folds. Here are a few of them assuming roughly 100 BB effective stacks: