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[QUOTE="mottotom27, post: 2627806, member: 123534"]
i watched a coaching video on this exact topic. the coach said many of his students made the "mistake" of 3betting just because "villain is opening really wide". it's not how wide villain is opening, but how wide he is calling 3bets that matters. say villain 3x on the button you have ATs in the big blind, you're way ahead of his opening range so it should be a really profitable flat so long as you are reasonably competent postflop. but if you 3bet villain is usually only calling with dominated hands (fish are the exception). so why bloat the pot OOP when you're priced in to call at a discount with a hand that crushes your opponent's range?

also once you move hands like ATs from your flatting range to your 3bet range it means there are less hands you can profitably 3bet bluff with without being exploitable to light 4bets. so hands like K9s, T8s that might have been profitable light 3bets you'll end up having to fold. the coach mentioned that you "want to be flatting with the widest range of hands that you can profitably flat with" and 3betting "the top of your folding range" and "hands which are too good to flat"

as you move up you'll definitely have to learn to do this so you might as well start now, even if it won't immediately be more +EV. 3betting linear from the BB just isn't the best long term solution. you might just need to gain some confidence playing out of position
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