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
You open a normal range UTG, action is folded to the small blind who 3-bets you and
You open a normal range UTG, action is folded to the small blind who 3-bets you and has a normal to tight 3-betting range. Comments: If you open say 15% UTG, and your opponent has an overall 3-bet percentage of 6%, then you're folding almost all of your hands except for: QQ+, AKs, AKo. QQ may even be a fold if your opponent’s overall 3-bet percentage is smaller than 6%. Your opponent’s 3-bet percentage from the small blind is irrelevant, and it's unlikely you'll have an adequate sample to have stats for 3-bet from SB vs UTG. On average you'll be looking at an opponent with a 4% 3-bet range or less. So you should be proceeding only with the very top of your range.
You open a normal range UTG
You open a normal range UTG action is folded to the big blind who 3-bets you and has a normal to tight 3-betting range. Comments: Similar thing as in the small blind, except you can call with slightly more of your range. Since the big blind is last to act, the 3-betting range will be slightly wider on average, but not by much. That just means you can call with TT+, AKo, AKs and sometimes AQs. You open a normal range UTG, and your opponent on your immediate left 3-bets you, who has a normal 3-betting range. Comments: You should be folding most of your range except for JJ+, AKo, AKs. Against some opponents, TT and AQs can be called. In general though they should be dumped unless they are somewhat on the looser 3-betting side of a normal 3- betting range.