adjusting to blind 3bets when stealing a lot more

[bspahn]

so i like the approach up throwing away the worst opening hands from CO and BTN when the blinds could fight back relatively light, that's pretty easy to do...

defending wider seems a lot more complex to me.

let's look at 4bet/stacking off
if we assume our standard vs blinds is JJ+/AK then we can fairly easily add in TT and AQ probably

this leads to an issue though, against these types of guys who are 3betting around 10% or a bit more against steals, our 88/99 type hands are pretty strong but I can't really see 4bet/stacking off being good but flatting isn't good either because most boards will be terrible and we end up folding on the flop and we hardly ever can stand any barrels with them... do we just not worry bout middle pairs and ditch them?

probably the most difficult thing is defending by calling, i just have a really hard time figuring out what hands are good to call with.
i mean as already said calling with mid pairs is really difficult imo
then theres suited broadways, but say we flats TJs or QJs, i mean they are just so easily dominated, so if we flop top pair do we start to fold to turn barrels???
and what about lower sc's, say i have 78s I mean sure i can call but its probably -ev because we lack initiative and frankly these hands dont really connect in a super awesome way very often.

as you can see this is a huge struggle for me, so is there any simple approach to this or basically not at all and it's all dependent on reads, previous history etc...

[IowaSkinsFan]

so i like the approach up throwing away the worst opening hands from CO and BTN when the blinds could fight back relatively light, that's pretty easy to do...

I think people get confused when how to adjust to someone playing aggressively to your bets/opens/raises. You do not necessarily want to start folding more, in fact, I am betting with two regs in the blinds you're still going to want to open a very high frequency. You do not want to fold a +EV open as an adjustment. Sometimes someone is 3betting or calling so loose that a hand like 96s becomes a -EV open.

The best and simplest answer is to 4bet a wider value range with some/many bluffs thrown in. I wouldn't go further than AJs+, 88+, if even that far. You also widen your calling range down the ladder such as KJs/QJs/JTs/ATs/A9s type hands depending on how wide they are 3betting. There is no reason to freak if someone is 3betting a lot. Most players at your stakes when 3betting light are going to make large mistakes postflop and basically you just need to find the exploitable lines.