toots babos
ex-tornament grinder
Bronze Level
so recently i've jumped up in the limits and it seems players have a much better ability of utilizing 3 bets properly whereas in $3.30 and below games the players were totally clueless as to why, when or how to 3 bet correctly.
so what are ways of effectively combating 3 betting?
so far i've tried just folding alot of hands but that seems to be just bleeding chips and makes me wonder whether or not i should be 2-betting them in the first place and rather than doing that maybe just go into a fishy limp call mode preflop with those hands as calling an iso raise will be alot cheaper than potentially calling a 3 bet but it feels like that is totally weak.
another option seems to be 4 betting properly to weed out the 3-bet bullsh***ers but then should we get 5 bet we get put in even trickier spots whether to continue with the hand or not or if we get flat called we have to play a massively bloated pot on the flop which could get tricky vs some competent players.
i've also tried to just 4 bet jam vs these active 3 bettors although when doing so i know i'm just letting myself take a flip if they call so it seems like a very high variance route, one that will work from time to time but one that will also cost you alot of $$$ in bust outs when you lose the flip.
what are others thoughts into dealing with 3 betting effectively? this is an area of my game at this time that i'd like to look rather deeply into so that i can store it in the back of my head and progress on to something else.
thanks for taking the time to read this and looking forward to your responses
so what are ways of effectively combating 3 betting?
so far i've tried just folding alot of hands but that seems to be just bleeding chips and makes me wonder whether or not i should be 2-betting them in the first place and rather than doing that maybe just go into a fishy limp call mode preflop with those hands as calling an iso raise will be alot cheaper than potentially calling a 3 bet but it feels like that is totally weak.
another option seems to be 4 betting properly to weed out the 3-bet bullsh***ers but then should we get 5 bet we get put in even trickier spots whether to continue with the hand or not or if we get flat called we have to play a massively bloated pot on the flop which could get tricky vs some competent players.
i've also tried to just 4 bet jam vs these active 3 bettors although when doing so i know i'm just letting myself take a flip if they call so it seems like a very high variance route, one that will work from time to time but one that will also cost you alot of $$$ in bust outs when you lose the flip.
what are others thoughts into dealing with 3 betting effectively? this is an area of my game at this time that i'd like to look rather deeply into so that i can store it in the back of my head and progress on to something else.
thanks for taking the time to read this and looking forward to your responses