($20) Early AKs

[fnurt]

Some of the advice in this thread makes me want to cry. Push and it's not close.

Folding here is obviously absurd, as you rate to be ahead of each of the opposing hands, and you even have position.

Calling 1/4 of your stack with the hope of flopping the nuts before proceeding is weak, and I don't care if TJ's book says to do it. The scenario where MP2 has something like AJ, an ace flops, and you win his whole stack is a nice thing to daydream about, but it's not as likely as the risk that he will hit a J when you let him see the flop for free, or that he will bet you off the pot with aggression after you both miss.

And even if you push, you will get called by some weaker hands, it happens. One way you can detect weak-tight advice is that it always assumes your opponents will play perfectly from this point forward. They're not reading 2+2 and they don't know your hand.

After all the great discussions we have had on this forum, AKs is still a "drawing hand"?!?!? Makes me want to take up chess.