AKo in the BB

[jimchapter]

Hello all! Just got done playing 5-10 at my local casino and wanted to post a hand.

Players involved are utg who is a calling station
Utg+1 is weak tight
CO and SB are not to tricky and play fairly decent hands

I dont remember all the details, but do remember all the important stuff.

So I have AKo in the BB.

UTG and +1 both call
CO raises
SB and I call

Then utg reraises called to SB who caps it and I call

Just to note utg limp reraised several times and I recalled him showing down 76s earlier with one of the limp reraises.

The small blind also almost always capped it if it came 3 bets back to him.

Flop A K x rainbow

sb chks, i bet, call, call, raise, sb folds, i 3 bet and all call.

Turn was a blank

I bet and all call

River was another blank and there were no st8's or flushes possible.

I bet and the Co thinks for a few moments and mutters he is probably beat, but calls anyway. He shows AJo.

Reason I posted this is because the CO said nh even though I played it poorly due to me not raising preflop. I just wondered what some of you guys thought about it. I'll post my thoughts on not raising later.

[mikeyvegas]

I have no problem with you not raising pf. I hate your position with that particular hand. AKs I raise without thinking about it, but with AKo I would just call. Calling also helps in disguising your hand. The rest of the hand is pretty straight forward and I play it the same way. Others will probably carve me up for being a wuss PF though.

[steveyz]

I would have gone for a check-raise on the flop. I don't have a problem with you not raising pf either as it disguises your hand and gives you more options on the flop.

[jimchapter]

Steve,

Why would you checkraise? To make the players between me and the cutoff decide wheter they want to call two bets cold? I felt if I bet I would probably get raised by the cutoff so I could make it three to go.


In general, I only called preflop because my AKo would need help against 4 other players and I would be out of position the rest of the hand. Lucky for me I flopped a strong hand after It was capped preflop by the other players /images/graemlins/smile.gif