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I've been calling a lot with AK late in tournies and loving it.

I took down $15k in a $500+30 six-handed $600k guaranteed event last week (this is irrelevant, I know, but I am very happy) and I flat called raises three times in position with AK. On each occasion an ace flopped (which is obviously lucky).On two occasions, I took down monster pots, calling down the weaker ace's betting. On the other occasion, the flop came AQ10 monotone. I didn't have the suit and folded quite happily to OR's flop bet.

Now, in the first two cases, I think the reraise pre-flop is going to close down the action afterwards. I stacked them both times. The second time, OR had AQ and he's probably coming all the way. The first time, A10 may not call a reraise pre-flop and if he has, I doubt he's putting his whole stack in, whether I slow play or make a move.

On the third occasion, I would be much less willing to let this pot go on what was clearly a very dangerous flop if I'd reraised pre-flop and the c-bet, p-bet or v-bet gave me good odds to call - but what good can come of it?

I'm going to be flat-calling AK a lot more in future...