Originally Posted by Vi-Zer0Skill

i generally avoid 3betting players without a strong hand if their PFR is <10%.


If a player is 65/40, i personally prefer to call preflop more so than raise. These players typically don't fold a flop if it hits them in some way and so you aren't going to win a lot of RR pots since these players don't like to fold. I would appreciate hearing other ideas on how to play these types of players if anyone has suggestions.

Against a 25/20, for example, i would 3bet a lot of SC's and pocket pairs. They have good equity against this players opening range (when you add J-J+/A-K to your range) and also are easy to play postflop (typically a PP or a SC is a hit/miss type of hand).

So my advice is to generally avoid 3betting players who are very loose/ very tight. They are poor 3bet candidates since they don't like to fold/tend to have a legitimate hand.

The best players to 3bet are those who raise a reasonable amount but also raise a lot of hands that can't stand a preflop reraise (K-J, A-7 types of hands). And even when they call with them they are too passive with them postflop (c/f often).


Reads are also important. If a player is regularly folding in RR pots where he has called PF, you want to be targetting him. Conversely if someone is never folding in RR pots you don't want to go after him unless you have a strong hand.

Originally Posted by IowaSkinsFan

Very good posgt Vi-Zeroskill, except i have one argument.

Very loose players are bad to threebet argument is interesting. In general, I feel the problem may be moreso people just tend to cbet way too much into them. If they're going to call reraises with JT, we are ahead preflop with almost any hand we reraise. Although, the problem is we've just made the pot must bigger and by loosenning up are range we've done two things.
1. We inflate the pot, which actually allows our opponent to play better since decisions are easier in bigger pots, while in smaller pots were allowing him to make more mistakes since the pot will be played on three streets.
2. We make how he will play hands naturally a better move. Loose players will likely call a flop bet with any pair. Normally, the way they play it the rest of the way will become a gigantic mistake, but in threebet pots if we dont hit their pairs are often good, while if our threebet range is tight, calling with any pair is horrid.

But then again, if opponents are calling with such bad hands and is willing to put more money in with them that definetely would warrant reraising.