Live AA against 2 bigger stacks

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Having said that, this is the cash forum. Your hand belongs in the tournament forum.

Yes, way too big. You have an SPR of <1:1, so the geometric size is just over 1/5p on the flop. You're in middle position of a 3-way pot (with a cold caller LTA) with a relatively invulnerable hand and all the time in the world to get stacks in.

Whether you check or bet is highly dependent on reads (namely how passive CO is), but you're either going to want to check or bet much smaller.

In a tournament, during the rebuy period, with just a hair under 1 PSB behind going to a flop in a 3B pot, I think I might just jam the flop, and hope to get called by Qx. Taking down the pot and adding 12.5BB to our stack of 21BB is a win, especially with the blinds bearing down on us.

The problem with checking or betting small is that the UTG1 was getting an insanely good price to call our 3B pre, such that he could show up with a really wide range that can improve on a lot of turns to stack us. He could get here with KTs, JTs, T9s, and a bunch of middling PP's.

The CO's 3B cold-calling range probably has a lot of Broadway combos like AKo, AQo, AJs, and KQs that can call our jam, not realizing he's drawing almost dead. Maybe occasionally he shows up with JJ, but he shouldn't have QQ, 44, or QJ, when he cold-calls our 3B.

If we try to go bet-bet-bet, we're not likely to get call-call-called and see a worse hand at showdown.

Super easy move later in the MTT low stacked (I am assuming this is mid game near bubble since I don't have all the information) jam unless someone jams first, but probably still calling anyways. There are way too many ways to lose the hand having to think about it after flop. This is how your supposed to play near the button anyways steal them blinds and move on. If you want to be very tricky jam leaving 1BB behind depending on the clock but you should be clock controlling every hand when near the bubble to avoid paying blinds as much as possible to bubble.