7♠6♠ BB vs SB, preflop, 70 bb

Best play: Raise / 3-bet

Why

Treated as a first-in spot per the action label, hero opens 76 suited (7 and 6 of spades). Suited connectors are premier raising hands: they make straights and flushes with disguise, build the pot with fold equity, and play well multiway or heads-up. So the live options are open-raise or fold, and 76s is firmly an open, never a fold. Calling does not apply to a first-in pot. The raise captures dead money now and unlocks the full implied-odds tree on connected runouts when called; folding a hand this playable would leave EV on the table.

Key idea

Suited connectors like 76s are raise-or-fold first-in, and they raise: disguise, fold equity, and big implied odds. Calling is not an option when nobody has opened.

Common mistake

Wanting to limp/call 76s to see a cheap flop. First-in, there is no call: limping forfeits fold equity and initiative, so raise instead.