AKs calls big raise and keeps getting called down??

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To be clear, your preflop raise was fine. I was commenting on flop & turn.

BB's preflop action is very strong. He does have something, but that something isn't limited to AA. Limiting BB's range to AA-JJ and possibly AK is reasonable. This range expands as BB gets better or worse than the average donk.

That said, once the flop comes you are in really great shape. The board is extremely dry. There are very few draws. Even if you limit BB's range to just AA or KK (not a reasonable range, this is just an illustration), you still have an equity edge.

If the pot is heads-up and you have an equity edge against an opponent willing to go to the felt, you should be getting it in the middle. This is what you have been waiting for. You look for through tickets in no-limit, and this could be one. Make no mistake: you will lose this pot sometimes. Perhaps as often as 35%-40% of the time. But over the long haul, you're winning it. If you go broke against AA, that's the cost of doing buisness. Get your chips in & count your Sklansky bucks.

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Thanks. This is exactly the line of thinking i was hoping to find here.

Results: he had AA.

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Grunch, can you explain what possible reason you would want to open push this flop for?

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Fold equity against AK, or to insure max value from KK. In both cases, I'd need very solid reads on the opponent. I't pretty unusual for me to have a good enough read on the opponent to select this line, and that's why I usualy check-push for value most of the time.