The featured hands this week showcase correct play 3-betting strategy in a tournament where you are on the Button against a Middle Position player. With a big blind ante in play MP2 makes a standard opening raise to 2.5BBs, you 3-bet to 7.5BBs, and MP2 calls. The effective stacks are 50BBs to start the hand.
In this scenario the original raiser’s range is only somewhat capped as they will just call with AA preflop with some frequency at this stack depth to mix in slow playing to balance their range. Your opponent will still 4-bet QQ/KK/AK, however unlike scenarios where the preflop caller’s range is completely capped there are some big hands in Middle Position’s range in this scenario.