The best players to target with value 3 bets are those with a low fold-to-3 bet. We 3 bet for value because we believe our hand to be stronger than our opponents hand, so we want to milk as much money out of our opponent as possible. To set up a post-flop steal (or pre-flop steal).Before you 3 bet you should have one of them in mind: There are 3 main reasons why you want to 3 bet. The same rule applies to the '4 bet' and the '5 bet' (It's basically just a shortened abbreviation for saying 'The third bet in the round').' The 3 bet most commonly refers to the time when you raise the pre-flop opening raise of your opponent'.The mandatory blinds count as the first bet, the open-raise counts as the second bet, and any raise following this will be a 3 bet. 3 bets can happen on any street, but this article will focus on preflop 3betting. A 3 bet refers to any time a player makes the third bet in a pot.This article will focus on pre-flop 3-Betting So what is a 3 bet in poker?