Hi guys.
Early in a big tournament. Blinds 30/60. Everyone has well above 100BB. MP is dealt AdAs and open raises 3x. BB calls. Flop comes 6c7c2h. BB checks, MP bets slightly above half the pot, BB raises 3xMP bet, MP calls. Turn 4d and BB bets 2/3 of the pot. What do you do?
Depends on how "big" of a tournament it is and also what type of opponent you are playing against. Is BB a nit? Tight-aggressive? A maniac? All of these factor into how you play the hand early on, but let's look at this from a GTO perspective:
You're near the top of your range here on a 6c7c2h board. The only other
hands that you have for value better than AA are 67s (3 combos), 66 (3 combos), 77 (3 combos) and 22 (3 combos). That's 12 combos of hands out of the multitude of your opening range from MP, which I'm going to assume is a decent chunk of hands. Also keep in mind that, besides high-
equity combo draws, these are also the small percentage of hands that your opponent can have in the BB raising for value. So we certainly can't fold the flop, as this would be too exploitable. You also do not have the A of clubs in your hand, which gives the BB more combinations of bluffs. Not to mention all the airball bluffs that the BB can just have anyway. The 4d turn really only completes a 53 or 85s, with 85s being the more likely of the two.
Depending on your opponent and how the board runs out, I think you just have to call down here unless your opponent is a big NIT and is just never
bluffing or semi-bluffing here. Folding would be too exploitable, as there are just more combinations of bluffs in our opponents range than value for the most part in the BB on this flop. Most thinking players from the BB will realize that this flop hits their range much harder than yours, and will sometimes just raise with no equity because they know you can't continue without a pair+. Raising would be a mistake imo, as we get all bluffs to fold and only hands that beat ours to continue, but unless we have a soul read on our opponent or the river comes the 5 of clubs, I think you should just call down in most spots against decent opponents.