[Dynasty]

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You have to figure that at least one of these players has a pocket pair. The most likely holding for a player without a pocket pair is a weaker ace--but if there's a weaker ace out there, then your 3-way equity with AKo goes down.


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No, it doesn't- at least not significantly.

I don't remember the suits of the cards in the actual hand. But, this should suffice.

Holdem Hi: 1370754 enumerated boards
cards win %win lose %lose tie %tie EV
As Kh 496900 36.25 869636 63.44 4218 0.31 0.364
Jc Jd 636192 46.41 730344 53.28 4218 0.31 0.465
Td Th 233444 17.03 1133092 82.66 4218 0.31 0.171


Holdem Hi: 1370754 enumerated boards
cards win %win lose %lose tie %tie EV
As Kh 448950 32.75 902682 65.85 19122 1.39 0.334
Jc Jd 628006 45.81 738247 53.86 4501 0.33 0.459
Qd Ah 274676 20.04 1076956 78.57 19122 1.39 0.207

I'm not dismissing an extra 3% equity. But, even when the AQ is substituted for the TT, The AKo hand has 33.4% equity. The proper poker play is to call although it's essentially EV neutral with high variance. So, the decision comes down to what the proper tournament play is. Given the stack sizes, I think it's an easy call.