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Originally Posted by Nutz4Nutz
Thank you that makes sense. What kind of sizing do you think makes sense? Do you play this as a 50/50 check vs 3bet or do you always 3bet?
I wouldn't always. (Partly because I don't play these spots as fast as I think I should a lot of the time, but let's set aside my own leaks for now.) Whether I reraised here would depend on a lot of factors, like where we are in the tournament, but especially what I think of the villain in this hand. Did you have much chance to play with him before and notice him making plays like this?
I would also be more inclined to re-raise in a PKO, based in the idea that a covering stack might be pushing the action with a hand worse than mine in hopes of winning my bounty. I think the stack depth is a little tricky, because on the one hand you are rarely getting it in vs. a worse hand if you 3-bet here (sometimes villain will be overplaying QJ/KJ, but not often), but on the other hand the pot is now so large-- if you call the flop raise you have 1 SPR remaining-- that the value of picking it up without letting a bad card roll off is valuable too. (I wouldn't necessarily be comfortable getting over 30BB in on TPTK, but multiway and with the SPR as it is going to the flop, I do feel better about it here.)
I probably just jam if I 3-bet it here, anything else would look extremely weird and be committing anyway. (Maybe you could min-3-bet and call it off, but I'm not sure that's much of an improvement. Someone else might know something I don't, though.)