Interesting play

[Stinky]

Here is a play I keep seeing during online tourneys and I am wondering what others think about it.

Midway during tourney. Blinds 150-300 Avrg stack = 5000 You have 8xBB
You are UTG with AKs -- You go all-in for 2400
UTG+1 re-raises 4000 all in
Just about everyone has you both covered.
The re-raiser had 77

My question is with everyone still left to act is worth re-raising all in or just calling the all in bet or should you fold and wait for a better time. I think the fold and wait is a better option. With everyone still to act this seems gutsy.

Any thoughts?

BTW he beat me with the sevens

[EnderIII]

I would dub this a bad play rather than an interesting play, although i think you are correct that it is rather common. I think a little information is dangerous. By this i mean that a number of people have learned that small pocket pairs are a slight favorite over AK and are therefore excited to take advantage of their slight favorite and get all the money they can in preflop. They lack the information or just don't care that they are a huge underdog if the raiser has an overpair.

Calling all-ins with small pocket pairs, halfway through a tournament at a full table is a bad play in general. I suppose that if you are going to call here, it is better to isolate so you have fewer overcards to sweat. But folding is clearly superior. People get too attached to mid/small pocket pairs that primarily have value of good implied odds if they hit a set. Just need to fold them if there is a big raise. Next time you go all in with Jacks instead of AK, you're just that much more likely to paid off by some yahoo with 77, so don't worry about it. Hope this helps.