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Reply With QuoteEasy fold. bb might be squeezing but the tight player isn't. You are probably a 50/50 shot here at best against the tighty's range.
Wait for a better situation.
Im new i would like some hand advise
10 seater table blinds 150/300.
im 5th out of 52 remaining.
my chips stack is 6500.
im on the button with AK Suited the only player on the table with my size stack 3 pops the blind to 900. Ive only been at the table 10 minutes and hes been tight. I decided to flat call from the button with position and see what he does on the flop. The bb who has 4000 left after his blind money pushes all in. Hes been reatively loose in my 10 minutes. The tight player flat calls his raise allin.Ive 900 invested the pot is now 8750.
My move?
Easy fold. bb might be squeezing but the tight player isn't. You are probably a 50/50 shot here at best against the tighty's range.
Wait for a better situation.
Im just 3-bet shoving over the original raise. As played pretty easy call imo. I feel the orig raiser would ship KK+ so its gamboool time.
"You have to give way too much action to get way too much action"
Iam with Dan. i would bin them and wait for a better spot. With ak you need to be heads up at worst, Even 22 beats you if you miss so sit n wait.
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As played I probably fold 50% of the time and shove the other 50%, but I'm much more in favour of reraising the original 900 bet. At the very least it drastically reduces the chance that either of the blinds will be tempted to squeeze. You have a big hand, play it as such.
Originally Posted by Dice Man
Yeah i agree we cant be folding AKs here. We need to be shoving or raise/calling all the time unless the orig raiser is a real big bad nit. Why do people keep saying AK loses to a pair? Yeah true but it crushes a ton of people's PF raising range too. AKs is the nuts PF!!!!!
"You have to give way too much action to get way too much action"
If the bb is as you say LA and utg is tight looks like he is trapping and expecting the re rs from the bb if this is a fair read of your table situ.
Otherwise you could 3 bet and see what utg and bb do, if bb folds and utg flats and you see a flop then you have to make your decision when the flop comes. You need to play your hand correctly to get information from your players, fc gets nothing from it, you didn't know where you were in the hand at all.
If you get 4 bet and bb folds your probably beat so fold as you would be just spewing chips and more likely stacking off.
If bb pushes and utg folds shows utg was just being speculative with his chips and as you know bb has a large range you will probably be ahead so you call.
Given the way you played it, your up against 2 players and utg flatted the ai so hes probably ahead of you both, although you do have a A and a K so you have to wonder what he may be holding, QQ, JJ likely AA possibly?
Given the way it played out, fold, as youv'e have already put the utg on a tight range.
imo AK is a strong hand and should be played that way. If you look down and see AK and are scared to play it hard then its time to grow some balls.
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
im grateful for your honesty. I will play ak suited stronger pre from now on. For information purposes tight player had JJ loose player had AJ.
Flop came KK3.
typical.
you dont win a MTT without a bit of luck - if you throw AK pre-flop you will end up putting the chips in with worse cards later on. In my experience you could have ruled out AA and KK as players mostly slow play/min raise these hands - esp. at lower stake games.
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With caution! It's far too easy to spew chips post flop if you don't connect with AKs having played it hard preflop. Some situations are easy, others less so. Good post flop play is vital to keep AKs a winning hand.
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