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I'm not sure what you're getting at. AK is a drawing hand, it's supposed to be behind. Seeing a flop here is +EV because you have pot equity over your opponents (most likely) weaker holdings. If you push here you may run into a coin flip (which is not preferable or even +EV at times in cash) or be dominated.

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Snipes is thinking that he can take down this pot pre-flop often enough to make this a profitable play even when it does end up in a coin toss.

I'm not a big fan of narrow +ev plays in NL. That's a limit mentality. I try to save my big bets for situations where I'm getting a big overlay.