If the player has three-bet before and then has gotten to showdown with the hand(s), consider what kinds of hands that player has had in those cases. The first thing you need to do when facing a three-bet with position is to work out what sort of hands might inspire your opponent to reraise you from out of position (say, from the blinds after you raised and the action folded around to him). You should still play relatively tight when facing a three-bet mainly because most players three-bet a much tighter range of hands than you would like to think - something we touched on in the previous article. While you can start to call more preflop three-bets when you have position, you can’t throw caution to the wind and call each and every three-bet that comes your way just because you have positional advantage.

In a previous article, we chatted about the dangers of playing three-bet pots out of position and came to the conclusion that the majority of low stakes or inexperienced players should probably avoid too often calling those preflop reraises when they don’t have position on their opponent.īut what if you do have position on your three-betting opponent? Can you call more liberally or do you still have to consider folding most of the hands with which you are not willing to four-bet? The answer is a mixture of both.

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