Re: should you trap with AK late in a tourney?
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The blinds and antes are so high that someone is open-pushing nearly ever hand. Let's say you have about 10 BBs - say $120K and the blinds are 6K/12K/600 ante. You pick up AK in a middle spot and it's folded to you.
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I wouldn't slowplay AK here, in fact I don't think there is any hand I slowplay in this situation. First off, if open-pushing is the status-quo, I wouldn't want to send up any red flags with a monster hand. Secondly, just picking up the blinds/antes is a nice boost at this position.
Unless I have a read on a player still to act (say a very aggro big stack in the BB who has been often coming over the top to protect), I would just push it all in.
I would check out HoH II p. 35. Harrington talks about slow-playing pf, and mentions that the conditions for doing so are rare (full table, EP, AA/KK/sometimes QQ, laggy table).
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