how could i have played AK better?

Mariogs379 · #1 08-05-2005, 10:23 PM

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t200 (6 handed) converter

BB (t640)
UTG (t1775)
Hero (t4085)
CO (t2630)
Button (t2100)
SB (t2270)

Preflop: Hero is MP with A[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], K[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img].
1 fold, Hero calls t200, 2 folds, SB raises to t400, BB calls t200, Hero raises to t4085, SB calls t1870 (All-In), BB calls t240 (All-In).

Flop: (t6995) 9[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 5[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], J[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] (3 players, 2 all-in)

Turn: (t6995) J[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] (3 players, 2 all-in)

River: (t6995) 4[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] (3 players, 2 all-in)

Final Pot: t6995

Results in white below: 
BB has 4d Qh (two pair, jacks and fours).
Hero has Ah Kd (one pair, jacks).
SB has Td Tc (two pair, jacks and tens).
Outcome: SB wins t5180. Hero wins t1815. 

I believe i played this correctly because i would have had him dominated if he had any ace besides another AK and itd be about a coinflip if he had a pair. plus i read the middle player for weak given his limp and calling off for the rest of his chips...what do you all think?
how should i have played it?
-Mario

Colonel Kataffy · #2 08-05-2005, 10:28 PM

Why limp?

Mariogs379 · #3 08-05-2005, 10:36 PM

i was hoping someone would raise so i could move in...which is what happened. why would it have helped to raise? the guy with 1010 wasn't going to fold it...

#4 08-05-2005, 10:47 PM

Thats hindsight, its bad to think that way, your raising for value, villains could have other hands that are worth a limp but not a raise. A worse hand could take your whole stack on the flop if you dont raise preflop. Pick up "Holdem Poker for Advanced Players" it'll explain what I mean better. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Colonel Kataffy · #5 08-05-2005, 10:47 PM

I was mostly curious as to your line of reasoning. I would just ask yourself how sure are you that you are going to get raised. If I'm you, I want to be pretty sure that I'm going to get the opperturnity to reraise. Now this might be the read you had, but I wouldn't want to merely hope i'd get raised.

That being said, I usually would raise and play a more straight forward game. The reason being, this AK hand doesn't exist in a vacuum. I am also raiseing with a lot of hands that aren't AK. I'm "hoping" they call my AK with dominated hands, because I done a lot of bullying and won a lot of pots uncontested preflop.