Most often you will want to play 3 bet poker as a bluff against positions where your opponent's range is going to be traditionally wide, i.e - BU, CO, and SB opens. A high ATS means villain’s range will be wider in general and he will find it harder to combat 3 bets. If a player is not folding often enough to 3 bets then you will not have a profitable 3 bet bluff. You want to target players with a high Ft3bet and a high ATS. Flatting is often a good option against early position opens. You want to be 3 betting a value range of premium hands, and rarely/never bluffing. To summarize you want to be value 3 betting against players with a 'low fold to 3 bet (Ft3bet)' and a high 'Attempt to steal (ATS)'. Even hands as strong as QQ and AKo, you can strongly consider flatting vs an UTG open-raise. Even with the top end of your value range, you may be getting folds more often than you’d like, and flatting becomes a very viable option. 3 betting vs early opens looks very strong and you may end up isolating yourself against a range you don’t do well against. Generally you want to 3 bet less often for value against early position opens. So if you're facing up against an opponent who's going to call all of your 3-bets no matter what hand he is holding, then you need to widen your 3bet range, 3bet more hands and raise it up more.

Please note that this range will widen if you face a loose opponent. In a 6-max game, especially at lower stakes, you should only be 3-betting premium hands for value: 99+, AJss+.

A common mistake is to 3 bet a hand which may seem like a strong hand, but against the range that villain continues with, is relatively weak. This means that they will call your 3-bet with a decent amount of worse hands. The best players to target with value 3 bets are those with a low fold-to-3 bet. We 3 bet for value because we believe our hand to be stronger than our opponents hand, so we want to milk as much money out of our opponent as possible. To set up a post-flop steal (or pre-flop steal).Before you 3 bet you should have one of them in mind: There are 3 main reasons why you want to 3 bet. The same rule applies to the '4 bet' and the '5 bet' (It's basically just a shortened abbreviation for saying 'The third bet in the round').' The 3 bet most commonly refers to the time when you raise the pre-flop opening raise of your opponent'.The mandatory blinds count as the first bet, the open-raise counts as the second bet, and any raise following this will be a 3 bet. 3 bets can happen on any street, but this article will focus on preflop 3betting. A 3 bet refers to any time a player makes the third bet in a pot.

This article will focus on pre-flop 3-Betting So what is a 3 bet in poker?

What does 3 bet in poker mean