Busted with AKs preflop. Suggestions?

Mostly · #1 07-24-2007, 02:43 PM

I've only been playing for a month, and at this point I think my post-flop play is fairly strong, but my pre-flop play - not so much.

Anyway, here's the situation. I'm early in an online MTT with a little over the average stack with 3700. The blinds are 25/50.

The action is folded to me, I pick up AKs, and raise 3x the blinds. To my surprise, everyone behind me calls to the button, who raises it up to 1200 - double the pot.

I think the reraiser may just be looking to pick up the string, or he might have a made hand or a hand that dominates me, but I'm looking to pick up the pot right there, and thinking that I may stand a decent chance if I'm called, so I push. EVERYONE calls.

The two callers behind me had KK and QQ respectively. The original reraiser on the button had AA which held up.

Besides that hand being a total statistical oddity, do you think I handled it right? My choices at that point I considered to be folding, calling, or going all-in as since that was the only meaningful raise I could make that wouldn't have left me pot-committed anyway. I had just gotten moved to the table so I had absolutely no read on it, other than the fact that the original reraiser was the overwhelming chip leader, which I've found early in a tournament usually means an excessively loose player who's been hitting out. But that wasn't enough to sway my decision. Also, it was still early enough that two callers and a raiser didn't necessarily allow me to put them on a strong hand - the people who will call with anything hadn't been weeded out yet. In my mind I was almost facing three random hands.

Anyway, your advice would be appreciated.

PS: if anyone else had pushed before me, it would have been an easy fold.

Pokerfarian · #2 07-24-2007, 02:49 PM

Suggestions? Load up another tourney.

BarryLyndon · #3 07-24-2007, 02:53 PM

Somebody's trying to level us, and I don't like it.

Barry

ChipSpeak · #4 07-24-2007, 03:41 PM

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Somebody's trying to level us, and I don't like it.

Barry

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Had enough ss AK pf hands yet?

pariah8 · #5 07-24-2007, 02:54 PM

You played it fine, the people who didn't play it fine were QQ, KK as it is redonkulous to want to play those hands with that many people. If I were in the same situation on the button I'd be raising to take those limps so there's no problem with your read. As said load up another tournament, this stuff happens.

BarryLyndon · #6 07-24-2007, 03:11 PM

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You played it fine, the people who didn't play it fine were QQ, KK as it is redonkulous to want to play those hands with that many people. If I were in the same situation on the button I'd be raising to take those limps so there's no problem with your read. As said load up another tournament, this stuff happens.

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Yeah, Mostly, what he said.

Look, those huge raises - sometimes, it's going to be AA, and other times it's going to be AQ. You just have to deal with it - AK is a bloody [censored] monster in any small stakes tournament and you should hardly ever be shy with it.

Barry

SuperUberBob · #7 07-24-2007, 03:14 PM

I have folded AKs preflop once this month.

Just to give you an idea of how often I muck AK in these tournies.

BarryLyndon · #8 07-24-2007, 03:28 PM

Bob,

How the [censored] do you concentrate on anything with that avatar?

greenstack · #9 07-24-2007, 07:41 PM

This may sound very newbie but can you explain me how the AK thing change toward medium/higher stakes ?

Thanks

supair · #10 07-24-2007, 07:53 PM

I opened this thread and was disgusted to see barrys post, I was sure after reading three lines that this was him finally succumbing to a nervous breakdown, and that he was just goin to constantly flood this forum with "folding AK/AA preflop" posts. Now Im pretty sure its someone trying to induce said nervous breakdown in poor barry, but sir your comments so far seem to suggest your holding up well. keep up the good fight.