AK vs A5 anomaly?

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Actually I think he did. And I think he's right. If straights didn't count then any Ax hand is equally likely to beat AK. In simple terms you have to hit your kicker while AK doesn't hit the K. Now you may hit it via a pair(or better) or a flush, but if you hit you win (assuming the K misses, A's balance out for flushes).

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Obviously you missed it as well becasue Bozeman gave a perfectly good example of when the kicker makes a difference.

Anytime the board is xyyzz where Y and Z are non-K cards above your kicker and X is the kicker for Ax, AK will escape with a draw. When the board is Axyyz with Y > X, AK will escape with a win. There aren't a lot of these boards but there are more of them as your kicker gets lower. This does add to AKs win rate.

You see the same result with pocket pairs. 55 will lose more hands to AK than 99 simply because it gets counterfeited by the board more often.

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So here's a problem - you know that your opponent has AKo. You can choose any 2 unpaired, unsuited, cards to oppose it. What cards do you choose?

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Another AKo of course, with the A of his K suit and the K of one of the 2 remaining suits.