[Nordberg]

If you both have 4500 or more you can consider re-raising less than all in... but if he flat calls I think you have to push every flop. Its kind of a catch-22 because you probably get more calls from bigger aces if you just jam (looks more like a re-steal than AK imo), but you also get more calls from middle pairs. He's not going to love 88 if you re-raise to 1900 committing both of you if he decides to call or move in.

Most of the time I like re-raising smaller to appear strong to get my opponent to laydown middle pairs more often. Of course this leads to all sorts of interesting scenarios when I'm flat called [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

If you are against really bad players you can flat call more often, but really bad players also tend to call more all-ins, especially with hands that AK dominate.