Id like to start a discussion about a fairly common situation that I feel like Ive never really understood fully. This hand crops up time and time again, and playing it well or badly must have a huge effect on peoples long term winrates. Im going to start this fairly vague and see where people take it. Hopefully it will generate some discussion that will, at the very least, be useful to me.

We are in the big blind. It's folded to the button who opens for 3 or 4 bbs. The button is a player with tendancies that we know, but which are a variable in the question. In each case he has a reasonably wide button opening range of say 30%+. There are 3 kinds of hands we can have.

a) Hands which are ahead of his range, and he will call a reraise with worse. We are usually reraising for value e.g. AA.

b) Hands which are bad enough that calling and playing the hand out of position will not show a profit. In addition, we believe he will fold often enough to make a profit reraising. We reraise.

c) Hands which are strong enough to be played for a call, but if we reraise and he calls then we are crushed. This usually includes hands like KQs. These hands will be just as profitable as b hands if we reraise, however they have the potential to be more profitable if we just call.

Its the C hands that give me problems. I can profitably raise them, but that essentially turns them into a bluff. According to a number of poker books and articles hands like KQs or AJs, if played well, can be even more profitable as calling hands here, but Ive never really properly understood where it is the money comes from and as a result, Ive usually just reraised. The following questions are very vague, and the answer to most will be "it depends". Never-the-less it would help me a lot if I could get some opinions of what we are usually hoping will happen when we call these preflop. Any hand histories to illustrate the points would be great. Some general questions then:

1) According to accepted wisdom, floating out of position is usually fairly horrible so what is our general plan? Do we tend to give up the times we miss and just hope he spews into us when we hit a top pair hand?

2) If, as I suspect, we are planning on attacking some flops, do we prefer to attack dry or wet flops (this probably depends a lot on what level we think our opponent is thinking on), and do we tend to donk, check/raise or *gasp* float OOP.

3) Generally, do we make more money calling these hands preflop against people who are passive and likely to give up after a cbet when they miss, or people who are aggro and will fire 2 or 3 barrels at scarecards (like a K or Q) with air.

4) (Very) Roughly what percentage of the times that we call, miss and face a cbet do we just give up.

I know these questions are very vague, and I dont expect a comprehensive answer. But any hand histories or thoughts people could give that would give me more of an idea of where these hands are hoping to go in bread and butter situations would be very useful to me, and probably to a few others. Thankyou FTR.

Of course, this could just be a stfu and raise.