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Re: AK ITM vs action

could be bad news bears here ... my guess is that one has a pocket pair and the other has AQ/AJ/KQ ... in any case one of your 6 outs to win is most likely gone ... but it may be reasonable to call because whoever wins this pot is going to have a big chiplead over you when it gets to heads up

sure call ... pray one of them doesnt have AA

I typically don't post results (since in many ways they do not matter) and I was planning on posting this hand before I saw what these guys had, but I think this was a good fold

However I still do not know if it is right or not and would appreciate a definitive reason why calling here gives you a better shot at first than folding does

***** Hand History for Game 2445218765 *****
400/800 Tourney Texas Hold'em Game Table (NL) (Tournament 14369570) - Fri Jul 29 20:15:22 EDT 2005
Table Table 35131 (Real Money) -- Seat 6 is the button
Total number of players : 3
Seat 1: Villun (2830)
Seat 6: KiwiMel (2290)
Seat 8: redrobincl (2880)
redrobincl posts small blind (200)
Villun posts big blind (400)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Villun [ Ah, Kd ]
KiwiMel raises (2290) to 2290
KiwiMel is all-In.
redrobincl raises (2680) to 2880
redrobincl is all-In.
Villun folds.
Creating Main Pot with $4980 with KiwiMel
Creating Side Pot 1 with $590 with redrobincl
** Dealing Flop ** : [ 2d, Qc, 7d ]
** Dealing Turn ** : [ 8s ]
** Dealing River ** : [ 8d ]
** Summary **
Main Pot: 4980 | Side Pot 1: 590
Board: [ 2d Qc 7d 8s 8d ]
Villun balance 2430, lost 400 (folded)
KiwiMel balance 4980, bet 2290, collected 4980, net +2690 [ As Ac ] [ two pairs, aces and eights -- As,Ac,Qc,8s,8d ]
redrobincl balance 590, bet 2880, collected 590, lost -2290 [ Ad Kc ] [ a pair of eights -- Ad,Kc,Qc,8s,8d ]

Re: AK ITM vs action

Would it have been too unimaginable for the first to have 99 and the second TT? Or AJ and AQ. There are more combinations of 99+ through QQ than KK and AA.

I think you're being results-oriented here. With AK in your hand, there's less of a chance either of the other two hold an ace or a king. The AK vs AK vs AA is a very, very unlikely holding 3-way.

Re: AK ITM vs action

I'm well aware, I just thought it was funny that the worst case scenario occurred here.

I had a feeling though [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]