[haz31]

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There are 2 easy parts to this.

Firstly cardplayer normally talks about full ring and not 6max which are very different UTG's

Secondly and more importantly

You say that when you 3bet an UTG raiser everyone thinks u have a big hand? If you trully believe this, then the solution is NOT to stop 3betting UTG raises with AA, but rather to exploit this by 3betting much less premium hands against UTG raisers.
This forces them to either play back at you, at which time you go back to a tighter UTG 3 bet range, or they let you run over them.

This is pretty much 6max poker 101

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haz, good points, however I think you may be overlooking something.... the whole fact that the original raiser is UTG gives us the problem that he is for the most part only goign to be raising fairly premium hands ...


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Then why are you worried about him folding when you 3bet him with AA if he is going to have a premium hand. You can't have your cake and eat it.


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if we start 3betting a UTG raiser with much more marginal hands we are going to be putting ourselves in very tough spots against very strong hands.

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You are also in position which makes it alot easier to play postflop with air with him believing you have a very strong hand.

This also protects your hand from setminers as if your willing to 3bet trash and they call everytime getting 8.x to 1 thinking they have implied odds, then they will be throwing away money. As your unlikely to pay off a set with 6 high.
Futhermore 3betting encourages them to 4bet lighter, which is extremtly profitable when you 3bet them with AA and they 4 bet you with like TT/AQ/AJ when they are out of position etc.


Note that I dont really advocate 3betting light from the blinds against an UTG raiser however