4betting AK

[mvdgaag]

When 4betting AK (committing myself to go allin) I feel my opponents tend to 3bet with AA-JJ, AK and AQs... They'll fold AQs and JJ most of the time, but I only get a relatively small pot. The times I get called I'm either flipping against AK, behind against QQ or way behind against AA/KK...

Why 4bet AK? Any thoughts?

[Peter Harris]

because not all opponents are alike

because not all situations are alike

EDIT


Full Tilt Poker - No Limit Hold'em Cash Game - $0.25/$0.50 Blinds - 6 Players - (LegoPoker HH Converter (http://www.legopoker.com/hh))

SB: $35.00
BB: $38.80
UTG: $19.50
MP: $89.50
CO: $77.70
Hero (BTN): $50.00

Preflop: Hero is dealt K/images/graemlins/diamond.gif A/images/graemlins/diamond.gif (6 Players)
UTG folds, <font color="red">MP raises to $1.75</font>, CO folds, <font color="red">Hero raises to $6.00</font>, SB folds, <font color="red">BB raises to $19.00</font>, MP folds, <font color="red">Hero raises all-in to $50.00</font>, BB calls all-in for $19.80
Uncalled bet of $11.20 returned to Hero

Flop: ($79.60) Q/images/graemlins/club.gif 3/images/graemlins/heart.gif Q/images/graemlins/heart.gif (2 Players - 2 All-In)

Turn: ($79.60) 6/images/graemlins/club.gif (2 Players - 2 All-In)

River: ($79.60) 4/images/graemlins/spade.gif (2 Players - 2 All-In)

Pot Size: $79.60 ($3 Rake)

BB had 7/images/graemlins/heart.gif 7/images/graemlins/spade.gif (two pair, Queens and Sevens) and WON (+$37.80)
Hero had K/images/graemlins/diamond.gif A/images/graemlins/diamond.gif (a pair of Queens) and LOST (-$38.80)

Party Poker - No Limit Hold'em Cash Game - $0.25/$0.50 Blinds - 6 Players - (LegoPoker HH Converter (http://www.legopoker.com/hh))

SB: $55.90
Hero (BB): $63.70
UTG: $57.90
MP: $42.47
CO: $111.90
BTN: $64.19

Preflop: Hero is dealt K/images/graemlins/diamond.gif A/images/graemlins/diamond.gif (6 Players)
3 folds, BTN calls $0.50, <font color="red">SB raises to $25.00</font>, <font color="red">Hero raises all-in to $63.70</font>, BTN folds, SB calls all-in for $30.90
Uncalled bet of $7.80 returned to Hero

Flop: ($112.30) 6/images/graemlins/heart.gif 3/images/graemlins/heart.gif 6/images/graemlins/spade.gif (2 Players - 2 All-In)

Turn: ($112.30) A/images/graemlins/spade.gif (2 Players - 2 All-In)

River: ($112.30) K/images/graemlins/heart.gif (2 Players - 2 All-In)

Pot Size: $112.30 ($3 Rake)

SB had 4/images/graemlins/spade.gif A/images/graemlins/heart.gif (two pairs, Aces and Sixes) and LOST (-$55.90)
Hero had K/images/graemlins/diamond.gif A/images/graemlins/diamond.gif (two pairs, Aces and Kings) and WON (+$53.40)

[mvdgaag]

I'm moving to full tilt /images/graemlins/smile.gif...

Try 5NL party, if you are not from the US. I bet 95% of the players here are between 10/3 and 20/10. Must all have the same german pokerbook /images/graemlins/smile.gif. I find myself losing when I got it allin preflop with AK.

What you are saying is that you do it to exploit fish, but it's not good against a standard TAG?

EDIT: I see the second one was 25NL party. There's lots more fish at 25NL than there is at 5NL, strange enough /images/graemlins/smile.gif. Must be all the poor, but intelligent university students that have enough time to read poker books...