Re: How not to Play AK?
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Grunch.
So many hands....
Hand 1
Raise the turn. He may think you've already caught the flush and only call. If he 3-bets, call and fold with that river.
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Geez, this is the second suggestion to raise the turn. Since when do we raise on the turn when we don't have an equity edge?
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I have now changed my mind I think you are right, we should call the turn and not raise. I also think though that if hero has decided to see showdown on the turn then raising is better than calling.
I now think that calling turn and folding river is the correct play.
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raising the flop and betting the turn is the easiest way to find out where you are for as little chips as possible. You risk 2 BB at most to see the hand to showdown. Unless something odd happens, you should be getting roughly 4:1 odds for seeing the hand to showdown and you should win this hand well over >20% of the time either at showdown or with your opponent folding.
Edited to say: you would obviously fold if your opponent reraises you on the flop and bets the turn. But those times he doesn't you should win over 20% of the time.
the only time this would'nt work is against an uber-tricky maniac or when you and your opponent have super-5,000 hand reads on each other and he knows you'd do this with overcards. Both of these cases are pretty rare, so you might as well raise the flop.
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