NL50 - flop peeling AK UI in position

[Peter Harris]

Villain seems typical party uninspiring and bad. can i peel here? I used to play limit and this is uberstandard peeling, but of course deepstack NL is another kettle of fish.


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Hero ($62)
SB ($102.56)
BB ($23.40)
UTG ($64.50)
MP ($52.55)
CO ($50)

Preflop: Hero is Button with A/images/graemlins/spade.gif, K/images/graemlins/heart.gif.
<font color="#666666">3 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to $1.5</font>, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, <font color="#CC3333">BB raises to $2.25</font>, Hero calls $1.

Flop: ($5.25) 4/images/graemlins/diamond.gif, Q/images/graemlins/spade.gif, 2/images/graemlins/club.gif <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">BB bets $2</font>, Hero calls $2

[0evg0]

preflop action doesn't make sense

but if he has 45xbb preflop, just 4bet shove preflop

[Peter Harris]

PF - i raise to 3bb (1.5), he minraises me $1 back to 2.5. I considered 4betting but at present i'm not comfortable 4betting less than AA, KK, AKs :S

Can i really overpush shove there when villain has half a stack? seems an aggro overpush thats usually folded although i agree i'm happy flipping for that much.

[4_2_it]

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PF - i raise to 3bb (1.5), he minraises me $1 back to 2.5. I considered 4betting but at present i'm not comfortable 4betting less than AA, KK, AKs :S

Can i really overpush shove there when villain has half a stack? seems an aggro overpush thats usually folded although i agree i'm happy flipping for that much.

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Against a short stack's range you have the necessary equity to shove this pre-flop. Of course, it is a high variance move, but +EV (against a typical shortie). FWIW, AKo is not really any different than AKs here.

If he folds small PPs some of the time than a shove is definitely the best play here.

[.xxxx.]

[ QUOTE ]
PF - i raise to 3bb (1.5), he minraises me $1 back to 2.5. I considered 4betting but at present i'm not comfortable 4betting less than AA, KK, AKs :S

Can i really overpush shove there when villain has half a stack? seems an aggro overpush thats usually folded although i agree i'm happy flipping for that much.

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The minraise should have been enough of a tell that premiums were even less likely for villain to hold and like 4 2 said, AK = AKs in this spot.