Tournament Strategies
After receiving pocket cards, you are immediately faced with a choice: play your cards and either raise or call the blinds, or fold.
Practice Matters
So if you add some of these bluffing hands
So if you add some of these bluffing hands to your 3-bet value range, you'll increase your 3-bet range to a percentage that will properly polarize your total 3-bet range. This means that if you get your total 3-bet percentage to around 8%, your opponent won't know when you're 3-betting for value, or when you're 3-bet bluffing. They'll have to risk calling and playing a re-raised pot without initiative against you, folding their hand and giving up their equity, or 4-betting you.
Quasi Range
Quasi Range There will be times when you will want to turn some of your range you might normally call with, like AJs in the example above, into a 3-bet quasi-value range. You might do this against opponents who don't like to fold to 3-bets, or when you want to 3-bet isolate a weak player to keep other regulars out of the pot. It's quasi because sometimes it can be for value, and sometimes it will be a bluff. An example of a 3-bet quasi range is many of our calling hands from the previous examples. AJs versus CO 3-bet calling range AJs versus CO open of 29.5% of hands Quasi 3-bet Range: KQo+, KJs+, A9s–AJs, ATo–AJo, QJs+, 99–TT