Q&A #123: Sticking It To Light 3-Bettors
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Light 3-betting plays a large role in online 6-max games. If you fold too often to potentially light 3-bets, you risk getting run over. If you play back too often at potentially light 3-bets, you risk giving too much action. It can be a fine line.
Today’s question comes from James Cho about a hand where he decided to play back at someone who had been 3-betting him lightly.
[I]n one of your vids, you mentioned that pushing the flop after calling a 3B pf should be a bread-n-butter play saying that if our opponent is an aggro cbet’er, you can profitably push the flop given that we have about 25% equity.
MY QUESTION:
100 NL, 100BB eff stacks.
I raise KJ
from the BTN first-in, aggro player (26/23) 3B from BB, I call.
Flop comes 4
3
8
. ($24 in the pot)
Villain bets $13.25, I raise to $30, villain pushes $88.50, I fold.
Question 1) I wasn’t sure if i should push all-in on the flop because he bet HALF pot instead of full pot. In the examples from your video, villain bet full or close to full pot. Is it still a PUSH given that villain only bets half the pot? OR is my play of raising about 2.5x OK, folding to a push?
Question 2) What if we were deep stacked? After he cbets the flop, surely shoving can’t be right. So, shall we raise to 2.5x? 3x? How much should we raise? I also assume that if our raise gets called, we’re done with our hand unless we spike a K or J. Yes?
This is why I generally prefer to half-pot the flop on a c-bet after my 3-bet. It creates somewhat of an awkward stack size for my opponent.
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Tags: 3-betting, defending your steals, light 3-betting, no-limit-holdem, playing position, poker

Is it really correct to call a simple reraise “3-betting” in no-limit? It is an obscure limit term, very confusing in a no-limit article. This “3B from BB” style makes it even more difficult to decypher the whole thing. And what does “aggro player (26/23)” mean?