AKs on the bubble

[gh9801]

150/300 blinds, 20+2 PP

Seat 3: gh9801 ( $2295 )
Seat 4: winsome33 ( $1310 )
Seat 5: digijr ( $1130 )
Seat 6: joeplan ( $3265 )
Trny:9919348 Level:6
Blinds(150/300)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to gh9801 [ Ah Kh ]
digijr folds.
joeplan raises [600].
gh9801 raises [1050].
winsome33 folds.
joeplan is all-In [2665]

What's my play? First, how do you like my raise? And second, is this a definite throwaway?

[freemoney]

if you dont know, you shouldnt be playing and thats the truth. you have enough chips that the folding equity is high and if he calls rarely are you in bad shape, a disgustingly easy push.

[gh9801]

Ok, let me change the post, it's obvious I'm not folding

[curtains]

You have to have a plan when you raise, and the only reasonable plan behind raising to 1050 is to encourage him to call (as he sure as hell isn't folding for 450 more after putting in 600 to begin with).
With AKs on the bubble, you definitely don't want to encourage action like this, thus you should move allin.

[Gramps]

He's folding roughly....0% of the time to your small reraise. 2/3 of the time on the flop you'll be sitting with Ace high out of position. He has more chips than you. You're on the bubble and don't want to give him 3 cards for 450 to decide whether or not he likes his hand enough to put in an amount matching your stack. And you don't want to have to put in chips with Ace high to try and win the pot.

Push preflop. There's 1,050 "free" chips in there if he folds. If he hasn't done this mini-raise crap yet and it looks suspcious you cold fold or just call and see a flop, but I'd push the vast majority of the time here. Of the tiems he does call, you're probably a pretty good favorite on average (assuming at the 22s he'd call you with a number of dominated hands).

[lastchance]

You can't fold. And yeah, push initially.

[Scuba Chuck]

[ QUOTE ]
You have to have a plan when you raise, and the only reasonable plan behind raising to 1050 is to encourage him to call (as he sure as hell isn't folding for 450 more after putting in 600 to begin with).
With AKs on the bubble, you definitely don't want to encourage action like this, thus you should move allin.


[/ QUOTE ]

Curtains, perfect advice. I concur.

[mikey checks]

There's only 1 way to play AK preflop w/o a lot of chips .... and that's all in