How's my early AK play?

Playing AK early in a SNG can be tricky sometimes.

Anyone think I'm being too aggressive this early in the game trying to take down the pot on the flop?

Once that Jack hits, I know I am going to take this donk down. God, these 10+1 players are terrible. Slowplaying the 2 pair with a flush and a straight draw on the board....




***** Hand History for Game 3222282095 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $10 Buy-in + $1 Entry Fee Trny:18388669 Level:1 Blinds(10/15) - Sunday, December 18, 13:07:48 EDT 2005
Table Table 66924 (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of players : 10
Seat 5: PuffintheAM ( $800 )
Seat 3: breuben29 ( $985 )
Seat 8: vikfan79 ( $755 )
Seat 4: swissflipper ( $800 )
Seat 9: dr_zoidbob ( $800 )
Seat 10: kona88 ( $755 )
Seat 7: TheIroner ( $800 )
Seat 6: HeyMangs ( $800 )
Seat 1: Debralynnmi ( $790 )
Seat 2: EVG83 ( $715 )
Trny:18388669 Level:1
Blinds(10/15)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to PuffintheAM [ As Kh ]
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swissflipper folds.
PuffintheAM raises [45].
HeyMangs folds.
TheIroner folds.
vikfan79 folds.
dr_zoidbob folds.
kona88 folds.
Debralynnmi folds.
EVG83 folds.
breuben29 calls [30].
** Dealing Flop ** [ Tc, 8h, Qh ]
breuben29 checks.
PuffintheAM bets [75].
breuben29 calls [75].
** Dealing Turn ** [ Jc ]
breuben29 checks.
PuffintheAM bets [300].
breuben29 raises [600].
PuffintheAM is all-In [380]
breuben29 calls [80].
** Dealing River ** [ 7h ]
breuben29 shows [ Ts, 8c ] two pairs, tens and eights.
PuffintheAM shows [ As, Kh ] a straight, ten to ace.
PuffintheAM wins 1610 chips from the main pot with a straight, ten to ace.




Here's another AK hand early in a SNG




***** Hand History for Game 3222329719 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $10 Buy-in + $1 Entry Fee Trny:18388660 Level:2 Blinds(15/30) - Sunday, December 18, 13:19:56 EDT 2005
Table Table 67404 (Real Money)
Seat 10 is the button
Total number of players : 9
Seat 2: PuffintheAM ( $680 )
Seat 3: rbminn ( $775 )
Seat 4: studboy69111 ( $815 )
Seat 5: gr1946 ( $1780 )
Seat 6: TrueGel ( $800 )
Seat 7: mydutchess ( $620 )
Seat 8: ThsIsTheYear ( $1100 )
Seat 9: Chris_33333 ( $700 )
Seat 10: TASRme ( $730 )
Trny:18388660 Level:2
Blinds(15/30)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to PuffintheAM [ Kd Ad ]
studboy69111 raises [60].
gr1946 calls [60].
TrueGel folds.
mydutchess folds.
ThsIsTheYear folds.
Chris_33333 folds.
TASRme folds.
PuffintheAM is all-In [665]
rbminn folds.
studboy69111 folds.
gr1946 folds.
PuffintheAM does not show cards.
PuffintheAM wins 830 chips

[tigerite]

First one bad in that I think you needed to raise more preflop, but otherwise this is good

Second one is good.. I'm not sure I'd go as far as standard, but I like it.

bump.

[KingDan]

I like both.

[wiggs73]

Hm, I'm not sure I'd c-bet the first one because that 8TQ flop could have hit a lot of hands that would call a raise PF and you also wouldn't mind taking a free card to try to hit your straight.

Second hand, I like the play.

bump..

[durron597]

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[bluefeet]

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Anyone think I'm being too aggressive this early in the game trying to take down the pot on the flop?

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Nope. Just you and the blind, some paint on the flop, a gut-shot ta'boot, c-bet away.


2nd one is fine too (on occasion). You pick up a nice little pot PF a vast majority of the time. For every couple races you find yourself in, you be dominating a hand as well. If you were Button rather than SB...a pretty nice hand to see a flop with, with the raiser in front.

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Sorry about that. I didn't use the hand converter because I had problems with it in the past. Also, I thought the straight HH are actually easier to read in some cases.