What to do with AK here?

LKJ · #1 03-17-2005, 05:55 PM

Pokerstars $50 MTT...100 players left, 27 pay.
I am in the SB with A [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]K [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]
Blinds 100/200, I'm 2nd in chips at this table with T8565, just got moved here no more than 9 hands ago.

UTG (T7825), even newer to the table, raises to 600
MP1 (T4760) calls
All others fold to me in the SB. I pop it to T2400.
UTG thinks and folds, MP1 pushes the rest of his stack all-in. Obviously I'm calling at this point, though I'm not happy about putting half my stack on the line against possibly two of the hands I do not want to see (and was only worried about UTG holding).

All thoughts on how I played/should play this hand would be appreciated.

DemonDeac · #2 03-17-2005, 05:59 PM

smells like a mid pocket (9s or 10s)
ITS A RACE

2005 · #3 03-17-2005, 06:22 PM

Sounds good.

Gavin

LKJ · #4 03-17-2005, 06:24 PM

The reason I'm posting this hand is that MP1 did indeed turn out to have AA. The good news for me is that AA doesn't beat AK on a final board of K668K. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
Still, I obviously hated getting my money in this dominated, and wondered if I made a bad reraise out of the SB.

schwza · #5 03-17-2005, 06:25 PM

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The reason I'm posting this hand is that MP1 did indeed turn out to have AA. The good news for me is that AA doesn't beat AK on a final board of K668K. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
Still, I obviously hated getting my money in this dominated, and wondered if I made a bad reraise out of the SB.

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you probably should have posted regardless of what he had if you that it was interesting.

LKJ · #6 03-17-2005, 06:28 PM

Well, granted. When the 3-way action got around to me, it was a new situation to me and I wasn't sure what I should do with a hand that I didn't necessarily want action on.
Your suggestion of pushing sounds pretty reasonable considering that I had decided that the pot was big enough, and that I wouldn't mind taking it at that size.

schwza · #7 03-17-2005, 06:24 PM

i would push the first time around. it's gonna suck to play that flop 3 way OOP. since you didn't i'd call.

tiger7210 · #8 03-17-2005, 08:29 PM

Looks like you played it fine to me. I would be very surprised to see MP1 turn over AA/KK's after smooth calling UTG's raise. My thoughts are you are up against a middle pair 88-JJ's maybe even AK/AQ/AJ the majority of the time. You're now getting 3-1 on your call here with AK which becomes an easy call.