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I don't think I agree with this - I think you are giving up a lot of value when you have a great hand. If you are trying to get by cheap with AK you're going to end up with too many people in the hand. If you raise it to 45 and get 4 callers, the pot is now 225. What kind of continuation bet can you do for cheap? If you raise it to 70 and get 2 callers, the pot is now 210. Plus, you've got a better chance that someone did not hit their 2 pair when the flop came K76.

Like I said before, I'm not real big on raising AK more than a normalish raise, but I think your line of thinking is a little off. AK isn't going to make a big hand most of the time - you don't really want to 'see the flop cheaply' because that's going to tend to let other people 'see the flop cheaply' as well.

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First of all everyone here is insane, you simply don't expect 4 callers when you raise to 45 preflop with AKo in the $33s. I've played enough of them to know, most of the time you will get one or maybe two callers, and will have a pot size that is very managable.

Also when you get a ton of callers you don't use a continuation bet. I basically do a continuation bet a large majority of the time against one opponent, and less so against 2. Against two opponents the board has to be right, or I just have to have some kind of other feeling to do it. Most of the time I will just check and fold to 2 callers, although it depends on the flop texture/position and so on.