Meh. Obviously there’s nothing wrong with 3-betting either of these, but in both cases I feel like a 3-bet would look very very strong. In the first instance, I may occasionally get him to fold some smallish pairs but he’s also getting away from AQ/AJ if I 3-bet. Especially considering that I can get away with stuff like this post-flop, I prefer calling one.

Second one is a lot closer, but honestly I don’t think people are expecting re-steals before the ante stages of a tournament, when stacks are still so deep. If I 3-bet him and he calls with 77, I think he plays it primarily for set value post-flop. We’re too deep for me to want to play for stacks post-flop with AA even in a 3-bet pot, and I think for similar reasons he’s more likely to overvalue one pair in a 2-bet pot than in a 3-bet pot.

That may very well be giving too much credit t a tourney donk, though….

the AA hand seemslike a slam dunk 3bet as it can easily look like a resteal, and with ~100 BB stacks it seems really bad not to be building a pot in a spot where we can get called or even 4b on the light side