3-Betting a TAG
Against stations and maniacs, the 3-bet bluff dies (nothing folds); against nits it is pointless (their opens beat your 3-bets). The TAG is the one villain at low stakes whose discipline you can tax directly, because they fold to 3-bets at frequencies the books recommend.
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Build a real polarized 3-bet range
Value: QQ plus, AK, and against wide late-position TAG opens, AQ and JJ join. Bluffs: suited aces (A2s to A5s) and suited connectors, hands with equity insurance for the times they continue. Offsuit junk 3-bets are lighting money even against folders; when called you need playability.
Target their late opens, respect their early ones
The TAG cutoff and button opens are wide and fold-happy: attack. Their under-the-gun opens are their nit impression: your 3-bet range against those shrinks to value.
Have a post-call plan
When a TAG calls your 3-bet, their range is condensed and real (pairs, big broadways). C-bet boards that favor you (ace-high, king-high), check the middling boards that smash their calls, and do not triple-barrel a TAG who has calmly called twice.
Worked hand
Worked hand
TAG opens the cutoff, you 3-bet A♠ 4♠ from the button, they call. Flop K♦ 8♣ 3♠: they check, you c-bet a third pot, they fold 77. The 3-bet bought the initiative and the king-high board cashed it: their entire middling-pair region folds to one clean bet on the right texture.
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The mistakes that cost you
- 3-bet bluffing their under-the-gun opens.
- Offsuit-junk bluffs.
- Giving up on the exact boards your 3-bet range owns.
- 3-betting so often the TAG adjusts (they are the one type that notices).
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