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[QUOTE="fundiver199, post: 6260382, member: 397965"]
Another purpose of 3-betting or for that matter any other aggressive action preflop, is to have an uncapped range and more chances to take the pot away later. If for instance the flop comes AK4 rainbow, its much easier for us to represent that board, if we took an aggressive action preflop rather than a passive. So even if we actually just have say JTs with a backdoor flush and the gutshot to broadway, maybe this does not really matter, because we can just C-bet and get a lot of hands to fold.

With that being said never taking a passive action preflop is certainly not optimal. In big blind especially we need to do a fair amount of defending by calling, because we are getting a good price against a small open raise, which most players use these days. We are also closing action, so when we call in big blind, we are sure to see a flop for the amount of chips, we put in.

Another valid reason to just call might be, that we have position postflop, so mainly when we are BTN but also to some extend CO, especially if BTN is a tight and passive player. Or we have a hand, which perform best with a deep SPR, like a small to medium pocket pair. In tournaments the best way to play small pocket pairs against prior action is often to rejam with an effective stack of say 15-20 bigs. But in cash games we are normally 100BB deep, and in that case what does it really do to 3-bet a hand like 44? The hand has terrible removal, and when you get action, you are usually kind of lost postflop, unless you flop a set.
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