NL100: Unknown TAG button raises, you sit in BB

[Aquadougs]

You have played about 25 hands and 3betted this villain once. You have both played average TAGish.

Stacks: 100bb's

3 folds to button who raises to 4bb's, SB folds, you sit in BB

What hands would you 3bet with?
What hands would you call with?

[spivey]

Nothing.
Everything.

For metagame.

[sh58]

much too vague to answer in any depth

at least TT, AQ+ and probably alot more stuff

[Aquadougs]

What do you do in this situation where the variables seems very vague?

AQ+, TT+ for 3betting?

[Schmitty 87]

Ya I don't know for sure but I'd be 3-betting a lot more hands than I'd call with. Probly something like all pairs, A10+, KQ-KJ. Would mostly 3-bet them but might call with some of the high card hands.

[Aquadougs]

Calling with high card hands? I think they are very difficult to play OOP. What about calling with 22-77? Is it a big leak, cause you wont hit set to often? I call only with small pairs OOP for setmining.

[Aquadougs]

Would anybody answer me on the last question?

[dirtylobster]

Calling OOP only with small pairs setmining is a pretty stupid idea. Any villain with half a brain will realize that every time you call in the blind and put in money postflop you have a set. Against thinking players you need to do a little more than that. Like calling with suited connectors, broadways, AJ, stuff like that. And also 3-bet small PP:s every once in the while. Keep it mixed up and the villains on their toes.

[dirtylobster]

I 3-bet "by feel" from the blinds and don't have a hard set of rules. The forementioned TT+/AQ+ works well as a guideline but feel free to stir the sauce.

[Ganon]

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What about calling with 22-77? Is it a big leak, cause you wont hit set to often? I call only with small pairs OOP for setmining.

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It's not a big leak especially not in SSNL. However, the better player button is the closer to -EV it gets. First of all he will open with a very wide range and c-bet a lot. This means that you will very often be folding the best hand if you c/f whenever you don't flop a set. It also means he will not pay you off as often when you do. If he's a decent handreader and he's not too loose preflop then folding can definetely be better than calling if you're never continuing without a set. Pay attention to his agression factors and C-bet frequency.