($22)Going broke with AK early
 

Early so no reads. How do you play this?

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t15 (10 handed) FTR converter on zerodivide.cx

UTG+1 (t825)
Hero (t800)
MP1 (t640)
MP2 (t990)
MP3 (t740)
CO (t800)
Button (t925)
SB (t755)
BB (t800)
UTG (t725)

Preflop: Hero is UTG+2 with K[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], A[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img].
UTG calls t15, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t50</font>, <font color="#666666">7 folds</font>, UTG calls t35.

Flop: (t122.50) 4[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], K[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], Q[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
UTG checks, <font color="#CC3333">Hero bets t75</font>, <font color="#CC3333">UTG raises to t275</font>, Hero does what?

Re: ($22)Going broke with AK early
 

I make like your title and go broke early. (Or double up)

Re: ($22)Going broke with AK early
 

Folding this would never cross my mind. Is that a leak?

Re: ($22)Going broke with AK early
 

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I make like your title and go broke early. (Or double up)

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Re: ($22)Going broke with AK early
 

Hero pushes and laughs when villain turns over KJ....then gets pissed when a jack turns, and happy when a T rivers to give him a straight.

At this level, I put the villian on the range K9+/Ad4d/JdTd. I think the chips you gain by pushing and having him fold/calling with you winning outweighs the time you get stacked by KQ/44, so I would PUSH.

Re: ($22)Going broke with AK early
 

I expect a flush or even a straight draw here an awful lot of the time. And I've seen much worse. I push and sweat out whether he makes his draw or whether I can outdraw to beat his queen-four offsuit two pair.

Re: ($22)Going broke with AK early
 

sometimes you lose these....

Re: ($22)Going broke with AK early
 

I like to raise more than 50 preflop. Especially with AK. And of course I'd call his all in.

Re: ($22)Going broke with AK early
 

Raise more preflop (I would go to 75), then double up here on the flop.

Re: ($22)Going broke with AK early
 

I still push this, but I've noticed that I'm not the only one who plays small PPs very passively preflop in the early levels. His range definitely is much wider than just a set or KQ here though, he also could have KJ, KT, 78d, TJ, etc, and many of his holdings that are way behind call a push.