How should I play this turn with AKs?

[jd2b2006]

Quote:"I disagree.

Are you scared of a OESD (straight draw) or flush draw calling your all in while you have TP TK? If you are I can't take your post seriously. I want someone with a draw to call off all their chips.

As for two pair, people will call a raise to 80 with crap anyway at this level, you don't reduce the number of bad beats this way."

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I guess we will agree to disagree. I personally like to be better than a 2-to-1 favorite for all my chips early. If the blinds were higher, I do not mind as much. I believe there will be other opportunities to get my money as a bigger favorite.

As to raising before the flop will not result in fewer bad beats, you must give zero credit to people who play at these levels. If you do not raise before the flop, how do you put opponents on any sort of range of hands? At least raising should narrow this range somewhat.

[microbet]

Yeah. Play at the $11's varies A LOT by table. Sometimes a raise of $80 won't get anyone out, sometimes it will clear the table. It GENERALLY will clear out trashy hands that just want to play any cheap hand. It will often not clear out Ax, which is just what you want - though I'm certainly not upset if everyone folds to my AK.

Just an extreme example: Yesterday I was in 2 $11's at the same time. In one game ITM started at 25/50, in another there were 6 players left at 150/300.

[foofighter]

i agree with limp here...its early and u have same amount of chips as everyone else...this could just look like a blind steal...if u were shorter stacked i raise for sure but here i like the limp if one of the blinds raises you could always reraise.
on the turn u should have checked after he called your flop bet.

[jojobinks]

folding with aks in co is terrible. i know it's early and that play is bad. but if you limp here, you might as well click deal me out and come back when the blinds get to 50/100, right? if you aren't gonna play, don't play for real. you'd have more time to devote to the other tables you're managing, anyhow.

[elonkra]

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I have found at $11, 22, and 33 buy-ins that for every time you limp with a good hand like AKs and might double up, you will also let someone in for cheap that will hit two pair, an OESD, or a flush draw and will call off all their chips.
I agree that you should raise to at least 80 here and either check/fold this flop, or if you do bet the flop and get called, then check/fold the turn if you do not get odds to draw to the flush.

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I disagree.

Are you scared of a OESD (straight draw) or flush draw calling your all in while you have TP TK? If you are I can't take your post seriously. I want someone with a draw to call off all their chips.

As for two pair, people will call a raise to 80 with crap anyway at this level, you don't reduce the number of bad beats this way.

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I don't know. What are you gonna do when the guy w/45off flops two pair and coldcalls your TPTK bet in the big blind? You check the turn when it's checked to you? You call the river bet when it's bet to you? You really don't think he'd have folded to your 3xbb bet preflop, assuming you have a decent table image?