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Old 12-02-2005, 12:11 PM
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Default Two AKs hands against a maniac- $200 cap NLHE

Two AK situations in a $200 cap, $0.25/$0.50 no-limit holdem game (5-handed). A maniac, playing well below his usual game level, is seated to your left.

This player will push in his whole stack with any two cards, and often does (even over a $0.75 pot). He'll open-raise to $6 and will often do it blind UTG. He doesn't care about the money at all, it seems (and that's pretty close to the truth).
You are sure that you can trap him for most if not all of his stack on favorable flops.

Situation #1: You're in the BB with AKs, maniac pushes his $100+ stack into the pot. You have him covered by a small amount (not that it matters if you're a slightly shorter stack, here). Everyone else folds. Do you call?

Situation #2: You're in the BB again, maniac pushes UTG for $147. A solid player, who you assume won't call without AK, a pair, possibly AQs-AJs, thinks a bit and calls $147. You again have AKs. You have $210, the solid player had at least 50% more than you did originally- he won't be folding if you move all-in.

Do you call, raise, or fold?

Does being suited matter all that much in either hand?

Side question- Which hand is "Big Slick"? Is it AKoff or AKsuited?
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