[Macquarie]

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Its not for the same price...if Villain starts betting the pot or 3/4 the pot on turn and river, you're paying MUCH more than you would if you 3-bet the flop first. In addition, you STILL don't know where you are, unless you raise the turn.

Plus, the Fold Equity on the flop is pretty high imo. You're beaten by 3 hands, but there are alot more than 3 hands that would min-raise the flop in late position.

The amount of money you gain when someone folds, plus the money you save when you are actually beaten, makes 3-betting a good option, at least thats what I think.

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One minute. You are saying we have fold-equity because we fold out the hands we are beating?! We don't want to fold the hands we are beating! We want them to put more money in the pot....

We have no fold equity, which I would have defined as folding a hand we beat. This is exacly we don't make a big bet here. Not worse hands will call, and we have no fold equity against better hands.

The check call line is certainly harder to play that three betting the flop, but IMO has a much higher EV.