[Stealthy]

Given the risk of one or both of our pair outs being counterfeited or even the chance that we are drawing nearly dead to a strong made hand I do not think that a fold is terrible by any means.

However as the flop bettor is laggy I think that a raise is in order to try and get this HU. A call does not get us very far as a large variety of hands can call profitably behind us whereby they may have folded for 2 cold. I want to continue and raise here almost purely cause of the laggy stats not cause we want to go too far with our weak drawing hand. I don't think it takes much to turn this into a fold if -

1. Aggressive players behind us still to act

2. There is a caller between us and the flop bettor

3. No spade

4. Flop bettor has not shown any laggy tendancies

then I think a simple flop fold is best.

I have been re-evaluating my play with AK recently as it is not nearly as big a winner as it should be. This is cause I often take it too far.

Calling here is the worst of all options I think. Say a player to act behind us calls after we do with A4 (when he would have folded if faced with 2 cold) look how much trouble we are in when that ace falls.

Raising just about best for me but only for the reasons stated, folding a close 2nd with calling the worst of the 3.