109: early AK hand

[Scuba Chuck]

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With that in mind, I think a case could be made that our hero is only beating KK, AJ. Splitting with another AK, and losing to AA, QQ, AQ. Is my hand range too narrow? If not, maybe this is a good fold???


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Ok, the whole "preflop range" discussion going on in this thread is totally ridiculous. Just because somebody min-reraises you from the BB doesn't mean they have aces or kings.

In fact, almost anytime an opponent has a hand that strong and knows that they will be heads-up... they try to get as many chips as possible into the pot (as many as they think you will call.) So, simply in terms of pattern recognition I'd say this player has two goofy cards far more often than a premium hand. Weak aces are definitely in the running, too.

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Just to be straight. I think the river is a call. But I threw out this preflop hand range stuff for arguments sake.

One of my critical errors in this crazy game is I probably over-analyze. The preflop reraise, and subsequent flop check is so strange to me. What makes this hand even more unusual is the river bet. Snapping bluffs, or poor bets is not my expertise.

Anyway, to my question. Is it fair to me to assume that a strange reraise bet like this, that's not steep enough to assume AA or KK means villain is a donkey? Do any of you guys make raises like this?

Furthermore, speaking of strange bets, here's another strange one that is so difficult to read. I think this hand is slightly marginal, and not as dominant as I think this could be.

Bleh, this game is fun.