Isolation 3-bet range?
 

1/2 6m, seat on my right is a 98/48/1.0 after 50 hands, with an 18% win at showdown. Rest of table is decent-TAG, with preflop stats averaging 25/10. My image is similar at the table.

Suppose you are the cutoff, and the fish has open-raised. BB is a 20/18, no postflop read yet. What is your 3-betting range?

Am I right to think that since he raises 50% of hands, 3-betting our top 25% means we're ahead of his range? It seems we're +EV to play anything ahead of the midpoint of his range. Is that too tight, since we're better postflop also and have position?

-Curtis

Re: Isolation 3-bet range?
 

You don't want to just pick the top 25% of hands, you need hands with showdown value. Even though it fairs decently against his range I'm coldcalling with stuff like JTs because we need to hit something to win. 3 betting any ace and any pair isn't going to be far off.

Re: Isolation 3-bet range?
 

I 3bet any ace, any pair, any two broadway, any K8+, and probably some other stuff. This guy probably spews just as badly postflop as he does preflop, it shouldn't be hard to make a huge range profitable. I'd be expecting to make some K-high showdowns and win.

Re: Isolation 3-bet range?
 

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I 3bet any ace, any pair, any two broadway, any K8+, and probably some other stuff. This guy probably spews just as badly postflop as he does preflop, it shouldn't be hard to make a huge range profitable. I'd be expecting to make some K-high showdowns and win.

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I play this situation very similar to RunDown here.

-Caddy

Re: Isolation 3-bet range?
 

Also, while I'm going to be isolating very light and calling down very light, I'm not going to be doing a whole lot of raising light postflop. You can't outLAG a maniac.