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
Instead of 3-betting
Instead of 3-betting 3.5–4x your opponent’s open raise sizing, you 3-bet 2.67x your opponent’s open size in position, and 3.5–4x out of position. To keep it simple, if your opponent opens 3x the big blind, then you'd 3-bet to 8 BBs. If your opponent opens 2.5x the big blind, then 3-bet to 6.7 BBs. The sizing will take some getting used to depending on the stakes you play, but you can easily work that out and make a cheat sheet if you need to.
This means that all of your value range
This means that all of your value range and quasi range you're going to be 3-betting 2.67x your opponent’s opening amount. The reason you're going to do this is because it's going to keep a bulk of your opponent’s range still in the pot against you. Additionally it's going to place your opponent in a situation where they're going to have to make a lot of moves against you post flop to make up for situations when they call with the weaker part of their range and whiff the flop. They're going to have to do this out of position without initiative. There are very few opponents capable of doing this consistently at micro and small stakes games. If you are playing against one you think is capable, then just don't use this strategy against them.