Richard~;293096 wroteThat's probably very true. As a final question, how bad would it be to 3 bet call KJo from the SB with 30 BB's? Obviously it's player dependant but still
Also, am I correct in assuming 3bet folding KJ here for the blockers is bad since it's a strong hand and the BB is not predictable enough when you 3bet him?
3B/call is probably bad, he needs to be jamming a lot of worse kings to make it good. 3b/f is probably not great because:
a) blockers matter less when opening ranges are wide. If someone's opening 10% UTG blockers kill a significant part of their value range. When someone's opening 35% on the button blockers are not nearly as significant.
b) On top of that if they're flatting some % of the time (which is reasonable given they're in position and it's a late position battle) it kind of sucks playing KJo in a 3-bet pot.
c) The most important thing is 3-betting a hand that is profitable to flat is usually bad. In the right spots you can 3-bet just about anything and show at least a small profit. If you can 3-bet the top 5% of hands for value profitably, and you can flat the next 15% of hands profitably, why would you 3-bet bluff some of those 15% of hands that you can flat profitably when you could just 3-bet bluff the next 5-10% of hands that you would otherwise fold and turn a small profit with those too. Now you can play 25-30% of hands profitably as opposed to just the top 20%.
The only reason to 3B bluff a hand you can flat profitably is if you determine 3B bluffing shows a bigger profit, but that's hard to determine and generally it's better to have distinct ranges of {3B for value} {flat for value} {3B bluff} and {fold}, with each of those ranges being hands that are slightly stronger than the hands in the next range.
EDIT: I don't know what you meant by the BB being predictable when you 3-bet him or w/e because you can't 3-bet the BB obv, lol (unless you limp)