Hand Review - Anyone have any advice???

[baseball38]

I would definately call them down. I would have to think that if one of them had on of the top pair or even second pair on the flop they would have bet trying to get the overcards out of there. Just my opinion though.

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[crockpot]

i have some advice...write these guys' names down on your buddy list and follow them around like a remora to profitable games.

as for the discussion, i don't know if we can assume that a guy who limps with AKs preflop is going to bet top or middle pair on the flop, unless he assumed someone would raise after him allowing him to three bet. keep in mind that the pot is small on the river due to the lack of betting. still, i think i would have called the first bet if it came from the last player to act and prayed my hand was good. if it was a cold (bluff-)raise to you, you're definitely correct to get out of there.

it is interesting to see a guy play so passively preflop and so selectively aggressive on the river, both bluffing out the best hand and correctly calling down a bluff-raise from a worse hand. on a side note, do we all agree that the AKs made the correct play calling down the raise on the river? in my opinion there is no hand he can have that is consistent with this river play. once the lead bettor has checked, why is this guy going to check behind him when holding a hand big enough to check raise, such as any jack? to get away with this bluff, he either has to be a sophisticated player capable of checking a jack in that situation or catch the bettor napping.