AK Early Tourney - Getting away from it.

AK in the CO, only 7 players at the table (2 are away, one seat empty). Blinds 15-30, my stack around 1900, UTG stack around 4000.

One UTG limper big stack, I raise 4xbb, BB calls and UTG calls.

Flop is 6A7.

I make a half pot cb, he min raises, I call. He checks the turn and I make a 3/4 pot bet, he moves me all in and I call.

UTG shows 76, makes a full house on the river.

Anyway to avoid hands like this?

[Stoneii]

ask yourself what your opponent may have to make such a bet

I did, and the answer was Ace-x. He was big stack early because he played crap cards and got idiots to go all in against him. I saw him show down an ace with a 6 kicker on one hand, and middle pair on another.

His UTG limp further said to me something like Ace-8, Ace-9. It wouldnt make sense that he limped with 76o and called 3xBB more with it OOP. But he did :P

Only thing I was worried about was Ace-6, Ace-7, and by the turn I was thinking about how I was going to get all my chips in.

[TheJunkyardGod]

I think his agression could make me think he hit a set on the flop. You said he was a big stack so I could see him playing pocket pairs, even to a raise.

Personally, I think it would be hard to get away from this hand, though I'm not the best of players.

[ardie]

I think when you go up against lag big stack early, you're stack is always in peril. That said I feel that a larger than average raise say 5-6 bb is more appropriate so if you get a caller before him the price isn't so good. Otherwise he could be inclined to see a flop with 67o. He was willing to limp in the first place why not punish him a little more for the privilege?

ur line was fine, dont expect this to happen often coz he needs to hit the flop hard to profit at all.

[elmitchbo]

what we see here is the benefit of being a LAG. this guy could very well be a donkey getting lucky, or he could be a very good player.

a good LAG will take a line just like this guy did, and he'll get called because people are thinking 'this guy is a lucky donk.'

onyour line... when you get check raised twice you need to start thinking something bad might happen if you call.

[Solitare]

What was the turn?

Turn was a brick, a trey if I remember.

By the time he check-raised me the 2nd time I had maybe 600 chips left and the pot was up to around 2k, by that time there wasnt much left for me to do.

The check-raise minimum on the flop I thought was simply him putting me on a pair of 10s or so and re-raising with his ace-x. But sadly, was not the case. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

[betgo]

Maybe, check behind on the turn after being checkraised on the flop.

You almost have odds to call the checkraise on the turn even if you know what villain's hand is.