is this overplaying AK? by a pro no less
PokerStars Game #2199563569: Tournament #10569875, Hold'em No Limit - Level II (15/30) - 2005/07/27 - 13:04:43 (ET)
Table '10569875 1' Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: JohnnyBax (1340 in chips)
Seat 2: Minkee (1715 in chips)
Seat 3: northerngent (1520 in chips)
Seat 4: MisterMOTOWN (2425 in chips)
Seat 5: ChiliKing (1360 in chips)
Seat 6: KidKGB (1380 in chips)
Seat 7: slews (1470 in chips)
Seat 8: Nugie512 (1470 in chips)
Seat 9: luckyld (820 in chips)
northerngent: posts small blind 15
MisterMOTOWN: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
ChiliKing: calls 30, 4 folds, JohnnyBax: raises 120 to 150, 3 folds, ChiliKing: calls 120
*** FLOP *** [7c 9c 5c] (POT:345)
ChiliKing: checks, JohnnyBax: bets 150, ChiliKing: raises 150 to 300, JohnnyBax: calls 150
*** TURN *** [7c 9c 5c] [6d] (POT=945)
ChiliKing: bets 330, JohnnyBax: calls 330
*** RIVER *** [7c 9c 5c 6d] [Td] (Pot 1605)
ChiliKing: checks, JohnnyBax: bets 560 and is all-in, ChiliKing: calls 560
*** SHOW DOWN ***
JohnnyBax: shows [Kc Ad] (high card Ace)
ChiliKing: shows [Jc Jd] (a pair of Jacks)
Doesn't the way this hand play pretty much tell you that AK is not good after the flop? Is this just a total case of failing to reevaluate where you are at in the hand and overvaluing AK?
After the turn, how can you call any bet here with AK? you are behind to any pair, a set, and if it wasn't made on flop a straight now. And if you are really planning on going the distance with this AK, which at this point it sure looks like it, why don't you push all your chips in now and hope that the person folds to your "percieved straight"?
The river push here seems like total desparation to me. The only hand you can beat basically is a total bluff. Why not check it and hope that he was bluffing. Yes, I recognize that you have put almost all of your stack into this pot, but does that mean you just give up and throw the rest in because it is a huge pot?
Does anyone else think that the play of this hand was something you would see in a $5 SNG on PP? Or am I just missing something here. I was hoping to learn something from watching some "pro" players and how they play, but so far it has not been very enlightening.
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