[Xenod]

That's a really big raise for AK so early. If UTG is any good, then he must have a pretty good hand to be raising from there. Ideally, you want to knock everyone out and get your 5 cards against the SB's random hand, but UTG could easily have some sort of monster.


I'd make it 300. It tells the table you have a real hand and want to knock out the SB. If UTG raises that bet then he probably has JJ or better, and although you might be a coinflip, you can still get away from the hand with a decent stack. I wouldn't worry too much about the button, but you could respect his raise as well.