3-bet pots can seem complicated. They are big pots, and any mistakes you make can blow up your session’s profit in a moment. But when you have a proper plan of a attack and when you know WHAT to look for when getting involved – these pots becomes quite simple. A 3Bet in poker is when somebody raises preflop (2bet) and then somebody re-raises (3bet). So a 3Bet pot is when you go to the flop after there was a raise and a re-raise preflop. If you want to be a big winner at the poker tables, then you need to be become an expert at playing in 3Bet pots. But people often get confused in these situations. I'm I correct in thinking that I can't always c bet after 3 betting because what makes the light 3 bet +EV is that people are over folding to them. In a 3bet pot you should be cbetting at a high frequency because you can use a smaller bet size (say 1/3 to half pot) which means your cbet success rate only has to be 25% to 33% to be immediately.

Today I have another fun hand to go over from a $5,000 buy-in World Series of Poker no-limit hold'em event. In this one I was fortunate enough to flop top set in a hand that was three-bet preflop, and over the course of postflop streets sought to maximize value.

With the stacks all relatively deep (it was early on Day 1), the blinds were 150/300 with a 50 ante when I raised to 750 from early position with . The player in the hijack seat called as did the small blind, then a tight-aggressive player in the big blind reraised to 2,700.

As I talk about in the video below, this could be a squeeze from the BB, though the bet sizing suggests perhaps a stronger range (i.e., makes a squeeze less likely). I called the three-bet, the others folded, and we went heads-up to the flop.

With 6,700 in the middle, my opponent led for 3,500. This hand ultimately made it to the river — I'll let you watch below to see how things played out. As you do, listen to my explanations for why I played the flop, turn, and river as I did.

Would you have played this hand the same way?

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