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Old 07-28-2005, 01:27 AM
mike28 mike28 is offline
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Default Ever in a position not to reraise with AK?

Just got done with this hand, and it got me to thinking. I know Slansky writes that you should always re-raise with AK. This, however, sparked some thoughts:

***** Hand History for Game 2436505249 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $20 Buy-in + $2 Entry Fee Trny:14324849 Level:2 Blinds(15/30) - Thursday, July 28, 04:11:38 EDT 2005
Table Table 13812 (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of players : 9
Seat 1: Hero ( $775 )
Seat 2: fishboots ( $615 )
Seat 4: scclin ( $530 )
Seat 5: MBCaper12 ( $1005 )
Seat 6: wackus ( $1660 )
Seat 7: TowneyG ( $775 )
Seat 8: BumbleBe1298 ( $760 )
Seat 9: msbmsb111 ( $1155 )
Seat 10: stizzle19 ( $725 )
Trny:14324849 Level:2
Blinds(15/30)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Hero [ Ac Kd ]
wackus folds.
TowneyG raises [125].
BumbleBe1298 folds.
msbmsb111 folds.
stizzle19 folds.
Hero...

A raise like that UTG signals two things to me: AK or big pair. Here are the options that went through my head.

Pooooosh. I doubt villan is going to flip AJ/AQ, but it would be nice. More than likely I'm getting into a race with JJ/QQ, fighting against KK and praying against AA. Why risk it all this early? Taking down the raise would be fine but once again this strong from UTG hints to me that he likes his hand.

Call. Gives me t650 to work with. If I hit the ace, I can safely take the pot from JJ-KK without any problems. If he has AA then well, he has AA. Missing the flop allows me to get away fairly cheap (as opposed to re-raising or pushing)

Re-Raise. Popping this to t300-400 doesn't make sense to me. He's likely to jam his hand back at me for my remaining chips, then I'm forced to call. Missing the flop would be a nightmare too, leaving me with one leg to fight on the rest of the tournament.

Thoughts?
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