Quote Originally Posted by jackvance
Ok I am still quite bad in reasoning about 3bets, so please correct my mistakes:

A 3bet range, even if it's wide, is still somewhat skewed towards strong hands, which is what makes it hard to play against (for me). If we fold 88 (a decent hand) here then that means we're folding a large part of our range (which seems bad) but if we 4bet here he can play pretty perfectly against us and dump all of his trash and continue with the range that has us beat.
88 isnt a decent hand oop against a 3bet at these stakes, especially against a 3bet to an utg raiser. villian is representing a small to very small range (depending on how bluffy/stationy opp is), which is why we should generally fold. but in this situation, hero thinks 88 are the best hand, meaning villian has more trash hands than hands that beat us. so 4 betting will induce more folds than calls, or more calls with worse hands than hands that beat us.