AKo in the CO

[Harv72b]

Image questions aside, I don't think that folding the flop here is bad, for many of the reasons you listed. But I do think that there is value in peeling, albeit very slight value if so.

Yes, it's very possible that you could be drawing to only the runner runner straight, and at the same time having to dodge another spade. But it's also possible that MP1 has QQ & nobody has the flush draw, or that MP1 has picked up on the loose/terrible read Hero has on the two other opponents and is trying to bull Hero over with an AK of his own, or that MP1 got up to take a whiz and his 8 year-old son grabbed the mouse and started betting. Okay, maybe not the last one so much, but you get my drift. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

It's a very close call either way, and like I said, I don't think there's anything wrong with folding either. But I take one off here.