Re: BB special; pushing AKo in family pot a good or bad idea?
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A shove is a little too much and pretty much announces what you have.
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What you are saying with this reply is that the 8 other players at the table would be saying to themselves "yes, pretty much the only hand that he would push with here is AKo... Thats right, I know with near certainty that he would not make this play with 55-QQ, AQ, and certainly not with AA or KK. He pretty much could have turned his AKo over on the table with his push in that spot"
If that is what you claim. Then sir, I would say that you are wrong.
As for the play... I like it. There is enough dead money in there to make up for the small edge you would lose if called by a pocket pair and with that many limpers in the hand then you have no idea where you stand on a A67 flop if you lead out and get raised.
Stealing the blinds here is a significant increase to your stack your bet is substantial enough that you will take this pot down a decent enough percent of the time to make this profitable.
and although you are probably behind if you are called your judgement is probably correct that you are not dominated (you will not find AA or KK in midposition or later with all of these limpers and limp-raises are not too common here in EP) and there is a marginal yet significant that you go up against a hand that you do dominate.
I think that pushing is clearly the best play here.
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