With deep stacks, I always fold top pair!

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Is this really "deep-stacked" poker? I mean, sure...its deep-stacked if you think normal stacks are what you see in the end-game of an old Party SNG...but these are shallower stacks than the shallow online cash game NL with max buy-in (for example: ($400/($2+$4)>5000tc/(60tc+30tc)).

I think the river fold is marginal...and a good reason why I might just call with AKo in mid-position early in a tourney. I think it is very read-dependent...such that very small amounts of info I got from previous hands might swing me in either direction...or the tourney buy-in/level would help me decide. I think the turn check is good...unless you are against a player that will almost never check-raise...so you can bet, control pot size, and check behind river if you don't hit a flush. Since you don't have a read and you think your opponent is reasonable (which is a read, in a sense), you can't beat anything on the river.

But if your opponent is me, I have you beat unless I have exactly AK, in which we chop...and its unlikely I bet that on the river for value with that board.

But, with the horrible play I have seen in all sorts of tourneys on Party since the switch-over (it seems very few people have adjusted properly, at least in the 3-table tournaments) I'd be more apt to call.