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 Originally Posted by griffey24
The advantages to having a low 3b:
1. 3b have more fold equity, so you can add some bluffs that will often get folds
2. You rarely get 4b, so even your bluffs get to see flops
3. Your cold calling range is much stronger, so you can defend barrels more easily and raise more flops
4. Your cold calling range is much stronger, so you can back-raise more credibly over squeezes
5. You keep in hands you will dominate post-flop
I imagine the biggest advantage you had was that you always knew what the fuck you were doing, where you were in your range, etc. People tend to think of this as extra-theoretical or as a non-play consideration or something, but it actually is a cold-hard theoretical advantage to have a well defined range for which you have a plan. Money isn't so much won or lost on whether you 3b J8s in BU vs BB, so much as it's won or lost depending on how that play fits into your overall range on that street, your overall plan throughout the hand and your overall exploitation plan against that player.
So people naturally equate "It's not what you play, but how you play it" with some rhetorical bullshit akin to "You can't hug your kids with nuclear arms," but really it's actually solid theory.
So yeah, I'd throw up there on the board, "Advantage #6, you much more often knew what the fuck you were doing and why you were doing it."
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