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AKo out of position
Hi,
I'd appreciate comments on this hand. It seems like the kind of hand that occurs all the time. But when I look at, I realize that I don't know how to play it. In particular, how many reraise with this preflop? Thanks, Jonathan PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t50 (7 handed) FTR converter on zerodivide.cx Hero (t1585) BB (t1220) UTG (t1205) MP1 (t1540) MP2 (t2415) CO (t4700) Button (t835) Preflop: Hero is SB with A[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], K[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]. <font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">MP2 raises to t150</font>, <font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, Hero calls t125, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>. Flop: (t350) 3[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 7[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], 8[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font> <font color="#CC3333">Hero bets t150</font>, <font color="#CC3333">MP2 raises to t350</font>, Hero calls t200. Turn: (t1050) Q[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font> Hero checks, MP2 checks. River: (t1050) Q[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font> Hero checks, MP2 checks. Final Pot: t1050 |
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Re: AKo out of position
I often push this in your spot. I hate playing AK out of position...and AK plays best if you get to see all 5 cards. Plus, a push here gives you a ton of FE, often against hands that you're <50% against. Also, if you're playing against a donkey, you very well may get a call with AQ, AJ, AT, or even Ax or KQ.
FWIW, I may be a donkey for how I play this hand...but it's working for me at the moment. On other occasions, I just call and play the flop. |
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Re: AKo out of position
In retrospect, I think I should have pushed
preflop. That saves alot of the problems of playing the hand OOP. i suppose folding to the flop raise is a possibility, but that strikdes me as a little weak. My opponent showed down pocket 4's, and I felt a little silly. I think a stronger bet anywhere along the line would have taken down the hand. thanks for the input, Jonathan |
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Re: AKo out of position
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I often push this in your spot. I hate playing AK out of position...and AK plays best if you get to see all 5 cards. Plus, a push here gives you a ton of FE, often against hands that you're <50% against. Also, if you're playing against a donkey, you very well may get a call with AQ, AJ, AT, or even Ax or KQ. FWIW, I may be a donkey for how I play this hand...but it's working for me at the moment. On other occasions, I just call and play the flop. [/ QUOTE ] You contradicted yourself. Do you see why? Anyways, Im probobly re-raising and expecting to get all my money in on the flop. |
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Re: AKo out of position
For the very reason you are out of position, I'd be re-raising this pre-flop.
You should have dumped to his flop raise, definitely. Why are you continuing with just a-high? |
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Re: AKo out of position
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For the very reason you are out of position, I'd be re-raising this pre-flop. You should have dumped to his flop raise, definitely. Why are you continuing with just a-high? [/ QUOTE ] he doesnt just have A-high. He has AK on an 8-high flop. He's ahead often here. It does get tricky when he gets raised. He could have a pocket pair, or something like AQ. If you think he wouldn't raise AQ on that flop, pushing the turn would be very cool. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] But as always, this is read dependant. (Because people might call you anyway in low buy-in games with an underpair..) EDIT: Am I the only one who wants to call or push, and not something in between? Reraising sucks, because you're OOP in a big pot, I think. |
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Re: AKo out of position
Have to agree with Donk here. My preference would be to call or push. Calling vs. pushing would be situation dependant.
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Re: AKo out of position
Pushing all-in already? The BB is only 50 and you have about 1500 chips. Do you really need to raise all-in? If the blinds were up to 50/100, I understand. Here you have a lot of room to play some poker.
Raising him accomplishes a few things out of position. You might be able to end the hand pre-flop, you gain more information on his hand, and you gain the initiative in the hand incase he only has overcards or a small pocket. |
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Re: AKo out of position
why push?? if he has a hand that beats you he is calling and if he has a hand worse than yours unless it is AQ he isnt calling most likely, so a reraise is probably enough. you have a deep enough stack that you neednt do this, think about more than just this particular hand.
pat |
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Re: AKo out of position
Sometimes we get strong hands like AK in the blinds. Sometimes someone in E/MP will raise in front of us. Sometimes the stack sizes in play in relation to the blinds do not warrant a push. Sometimes we do have the chips to call the raise OOP. Sometimes we whiff completely on the flop. Sometimes we simply check-fold the flop. - TT/JJ becomes a lot more tricky in this situation. At this point in the game there's no reason we have to go broke, or invest what is now 1/3 our stack on this hand. |
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