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I think the rest of the hand was played fine

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Yeah okay whatever.

I challenge anyone to come up with a real, reasonable argument involving at least some math as to why just calling here before the flop can even be close to "fine."

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Id call because:

1. you probably dont have the best hand, someone has a pair. Your going to the flop a dog and have a 35% chance of catching an ace or king.

2. AKo does well against against few opponents and poorly in a big multiway pot.

3. because of point 2, the purpose of a raise would be to eliminate players not for value. at this point, no one is going to fold for one more bet. This game looks loose.

Theres a section on loose low limit games in
Hold'em Poker for Advanced Players
by David Sklansky (Author), Mason Malmuth (Author)

It talks about not raising in AKo but raising with JTs

pretty interesting