Re: Badly Played?
But it's not just AK, that's just an example, it's also AA, 88, 44, A8, A4 or even another AQ offers no value. Any of these hands might be out among 4 callers to a raised pot. I rate the limp as some evidence that AK may not be out there, but not the flat call.
Bear in mind also that Hero is coming out betting from early position - 2nd in 5. He has no 2nd round information on the three players behind him when he makes his bet on the flop. If he were in late position then I would start leaning more your way and saying his flop bet was better.
A big problem arises if Hero is raised on the flop. Raiser could be holding almost anything, a draw, two pair, a set, nothing at all. To the raise that happened I think it was a close call whether Hero should have laid the hand down, depending on how the raiser plays. Not being a whole lot more money to call relative to the pot size is probably the only thing making it worth a call here. If the stacks were much deeper it's a definite lay-down to the raise IMO. That's another big problem to coming out betting, Hero puts himself in a position (this betting round) of potentially facing drawing dead for all his money instead of just a small portion of it.
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