calling a reraise with AK at 1/2 NL full ring

[Dommer]

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So you raise 4xbb UTG, average 35/8 player reraised to 10xbb from MP, and it gets back to you. Push for (assuming full stacks 200nl) 190, 180 to MP to call.

I would only do this against a buddy list type player. Any player that isn't awful probably only calls when he's beating me or a coinflip, and he's beating me often enough that the occasional loss of a stack will be greater than picking up his 10 bb's.

But then again, I don't have any experience pushing AK. I experimented with it twice a while ago, and after getting called by KK, I gave up. It's worth it if opponents will call with AQ or AJ. Do they?

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With my image if I did something like that and the guy knew me and was decent he'd have to fold qq and jj and would probably even consider folding KK. I suppose if I knew he'd fold everything but AA reraising all-in with AK would be profitable, but I'd have to space it out a lot. They'd start calling sooner or later if I didn't. Unfortunately I have the image I do exactly because I DON'T do moves like that :P

Obviously if you see someone calling all-ins with < AK pre you will push your AK, I've never really seen that though. To me its lower variance and easier to just call and try to hit an A or K against players like that. Honestly though unless you are at 6 max I don't think you run into many players who are +ev to push ak against pre. As far as I know you really only push AK for fold equity.