Quote Originally Posted by Marshall28
Sorry, how exactly is raising 3x small ????.
It isn't.

It's so silly when people's flop raising range is sets, top two pair and combo draws and they think that means their range is "balanced" oh and they raise all those hands huge, 4x or more. If your range is 100% hands that are happy to get all in, you are not balanced, you are a huge nit. And I guess if you're a nit and people know exactly what your range is at all times then you might as well raise more so they can't use position against you. But when you can have gutters, weak flush draws like 54hh planning on folding to a 3bet, or even complete air, that's when you actually have a balanced range. If we had one of those hands we would probably raise the flop 3x to get a better price on our bluff and thus we do the same with 22 here.

I think the cold caller has a set sometimes but not that often to be honest. On this board if he had 99 or JJ and somehow checked the flop I feel like he'd put you on a bunch of hands that want to get it in on the flop and just cold 3-bet most of the time. It's more likely he checked a fairly strong hand to induce shenanigans and believed both of you would play straightforward against a cold-call that isn't as strong as it looks on the surface. I'd shove the turn.