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How do you play AK?  0   
Yeah how do you play AK?

1. How do your play it in a tour if you are on avarage stack and a chipleader in the table raises half your stack before you?

2. How do you play AK in position UTG in a tour where you also are on avarage

3. How do your play AK in cashgame if a tight guy before you raises x4 BB.

Just intressted in how you guys are playing AK Big Smile

Edited by Dajkie (28 May 2008 @ 13:40 GMT)


     
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1. probably (depend because at the table must study the other players) i go all in
2. probably i call and see the flop
3. probably i fold...if i think that i haven't the best hand
Blink

     
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in all of these situations you have failed to mention how deep your stacks are, i play my AK pretty similarly in all situations, but the main feature which will change is it depends on how many BB i have.

if i have < 10 BB im all in preflop, whether others have acted or not
if i have 10 < x < 20 BB i raise 5 x BB and then im all in on a large number of flops
if i have 20 < x< 50 then i start playing normal poker, raise and con bet but its all highly situational
if i have 50<x<100 it is still very much the same, will start folding to overly large bets or bet reraises preflop.
and any time i have more than 100 BB it becomes very difficult to always make the right decision, and it more comes down to your read on the table and other factors, because you will beat the player holding 64 a lot of the time, but the times that they hit will soxt you more than how much you make, for example a 46K board spells a lot of trouble for you

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there is a story in the back of harrington on hold em no limit cash about a player (i forget who) who looked down and saw AK UTG and he just folded, because at this table everyone was playing very deep and AK was a very hard hand to make profitable in the long run

     
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For number 1 I think I would move all in, number 2 I raise 3xBB and for the last one I simply call to see a flop or even until the turn Smile

     
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1. Depends on stacksizes and tourneysituation. Can go from all-in to fold.

2. Early in the tourney I raise 2.5-5 BB depending on the table. If the blinds are huge against the stacks it is a push.

3. How tight? If the guy is not a supernit it is a 3bet with AK. 12 BB is good here.

     
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1) fold = if the chip leaders wants to gamble he must have something really good to risk with.

2) rise 3xBB = UTG is the best stealing position as some pro says. Probably only a player would call then it's a heads up situation.

3) Call and see the flop. If he's tight u have the chance to scary him unless he has AA which is only 1/220

     
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all in
all in
fold

yours kvanta

     
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