should i have played it different

[trustme]

In a home game four player left, im first to act, i have AK os, the guy to my left is shortstack and has moved all in a lot over the last ten hands. I decide to flat call, trying to set a trap, guy folds. sb raises to 1600, ( blinds 200/400 ) he is chip leader, bb folds, thinking for all of 3 secs I move all in, its a further 3500 or so to the other guy to call, he thinks about it for ages, the longer he thinks the more i think that i have the chips. He calls. Shows pocket fours and i completely miss the flop. Did I do anything wrong? I was hoping really to avoid the call, with an all reraise, knowing if i was called that i wouldnt have been in too much trouble.

It is getting to the stage where im going to have to start folding ak, its cost me so many chips in the last month, at least tonight it was a coin toss, a couple of weeks ago i went from chipleader to short stack when my ak lost to a5 !!!

[DannyC]

Nah, you did right tbh, but then again its all experience. Whether its for a £10 pot or a £1,000,000 pot, its all experience and thats what gains you better play. ANYONE can bluff, but not everyone can play the right way.

I dont think I would fold AK on many occasions but in your scenario I would've one all in too most probably, AA dont think I would it would depend on a few other variants other than players, IE: probability of hitting straights/flushes in most of my recent games seem to hit more than trips, which was my arguement in the other post. I would sit there for a good 2-3 minutes and think of the probabilities, fair enough you have 2 very high cards AK, he could've had J,10h suited, and I've seen alot of flops with 2 hearts in, he only needs to hit one more for a flush, and you hit an A or a K on the turn or river, it still wouldn't beat his flush.

[Terminator]

No, I don't think you played it wrong. A-K is a pretty strong hand. You made it very difficult for him to call by re-raising for another 3500 chips. The problem is not knowing what kind of hand he is holding. The raise of 1600 from the SB could have suggested a few things, being the chip leader he might have been trying to steal, he might have a good hand, like A-K or Q-K, or he might have a low pocket pair and not want a call. If you don't put him on a pocket pair, then the raise is great, cause you have the strongest 2 live cards in your hand and he would have to hit, if you put him on a small pocket pair, then the raise is still good because you are going to have 2 overcards, and he will have the decision of whether to call or fold knowing he's up against 2 overcards or a higher pocket pair. His decision to call means that he has decided you are holding A-K, but even when he has decided this, he still needs to decide if he wants to risk that amount of chips knowing that he'll have to dodge an Ace or a King through the flop, turn and the river. Even though he thinks he is ahead at the moment, it's still a very big call for him.

[PokerWoody]

I don't really like the concept of setting a trap with AK but apart from that you played the hand fine.

[trustme]

found this on someones player profile:

to win a tournament you need your ak to win against pocket pairs and your pocket pairs to win against ak

anyway thanks for the feedback, much appreciated