[El_Hombre_Grande]

Look: Its very simple: AK is a very powerful semi-bluff hand. In position, on most boards, you should fear very few hands. What you should fear is taking a flop against 5 opponents so that you are now pretty much sure that someone hit the flop. It plays very well against all hands except AA and KK. If you are too weak -tight to get aggressive with it, you are too weak, period.

And for those of you saying that you need to limp with AK to "mix it up," you are (censored) insane. Try jacking 78s or 89s or sheer dog(censored) up instead, and people won't be able to figure out so easily when you have AA and KK or AK, and you might get action. And I play 23/17/3. What are you guys playing --3/2/1?