Tournament Strategies
After receiving pocket cards, you are immediately faced with a choice: play your cards and either raise or call the blinds, or fold.
Practice Matters
Against players who are opening fairly wide
Against players who are opening fairly wide and don't fold to 3-bets, re-raising a hand like AJs or KQs has a lot of value. You'll have your opponent calling with a lot of suited and unsuited connectors, dominated hands, and small pairs that don't have good flopability. There are a lot of hands where you'll put your opponent in a defensive position with an inferior range often enough.
3-Bet Sizing
3-Bet Sizing Standard 3-bet sizing tends to be 3–4 times your opponent’s opening raise, and sometimes slightly more out of position. In position you'll tend to want to 3-bet slightly smaller (3–3.5x), to keep your opponent in with a weaker range out of position against you, and slightly larger out of position (3.75–4.5x) to cut down your stack to pot ratio and increase your fold equity. What you size your 3-bet to heavily depends on your opponent, your actual hand, and whether you're looking to increase or decrease your opponent’s fold percentage.