Very tricky AK hand early in SNG

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Preflop: I prefer to reraise here to try and buy the button, but I don't have any real problems with just calling.



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Reraise how much?

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Generally I would reraise to 90-100 here. This is enough to get most smaller pocket pairs and marginal hands to fold from most decent players. The initial raise to 35 is such a weak raise that I would have trouble putting the raiser on a really solid hand so I prefer to find out for certain now while I can do it cheaply.

If they just call I can figure that I'm most likely in good shape with my hand if my hand hits. If they come back over the top then I will generally fold at the 22s and 33s. At the 11s I would call the all-in. At a higher buy in I fold to a reraise all-in unless I've got some note on the player saying they love to bluff or make plays like this with weak holdings.

For me the problem with hands like these when you don't reraise with a strong holding against such a weak raise, is that you don't really define your opponent's hand.