It's about time we had this discussion

[74o_Clownsuit]

When I 3-bet someone's opener in position my standard is 3x their raise. ($7 raised to $21 for example) Assuming 100bb stacks, this doesn't offer good pot odds or good implied odds (assuming I play decently postflop lol [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]) and builds a HU pot nicely. It doesn't cost THAT much and I'll have the rest of the hand to work my position and get into some good +EV lines in a big pot.

When I 3-bet out of the blinds (not nearly as often for obvious reasons) I make it 4x. I'm discouraging action because I'll be out of position postflop, but the times I take it down with a c-bet the pot will be an ample size. Also, the hands I 3-bet with out of the blinds are a much tighter range than in the CO or BU, but because I won't be able to milk position, I need to build a pot, and so I'm building it NOW.

Note: Kinda a hijack as the thread is about varying bet sizes and I'm talking about rr situations. As it deals with sizes, you can see I stick to a pretty hard-set raize-size rule with the above situations. I have been known to very *occasionally* change bet-sizing just a tad in a pot or two. It's also hard to examine those situations in a vacuum, as alot of my pfrr is geared towards establishing image/meta and not for the natural "value" of the play itself.