Raising AK in small stakes, no foldem holdem games

[Hair_of_the_Dog]

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I totally agree with Harv. You are raising for value, but you don't have much value if you miss against 6 random hands (someone has a pair). You should only be aggressive postflop if you miss, when you are HU or threehanded. This of course exludes gutshot draws, and corrosponding free card raises

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And sometimes you should just fold to 1 bet in early or middle position when you know that you have reverse implied odds. Wild games can be this way. When you know that you are going to have to call multiple bets in the future to see if you spike top pair when someone is likely to hit 33 & 77 or some other crap hand you might want to lay it down early.

When there a few players you sometimes afford to bluff, but only if you think they might fold. Many wild games people won't fold to even a legitimate raise so you have to watch out. I can't remember what the difference is between 5-6 players and 2-3 but you hand strength goes up quite a bit (25% maybe [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]).