[50NL] AKs from the SB

[KingKory]

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UTG ($49.90)
UTG+1 ($9.75)
MP1 ($22.20)
MP2 ($28.75)
MP3 ($87.50)
CO ($20)
Button ($110.10)
<font color="green">($49.50)</font>
BB ($35.55)

Preflop: KingKory is SB with K[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], A[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img].
CO posts a blind of $0.50.
<font color="#666666">1 fold</font>
UTG+1 raises to $1
<font color="#666666">1 fold</font>
MP2 raises to $2.5
<font color="#666666">3 folds</font>
<font color="green"> ??</font>

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The only read I have on either villian is that they play short-stacked.

Note that the original raiser is real short.

I guess this is more of a general question: How comfortable are you with AK OOP? Do you like to see all the money go in at this point? How hard do you cbet if/when you brick? Does the fact that the pot's been RR change the way you think? Is it ever right to fold here?

Granted with the shorties, there probably isn't much poker to be played post-flop, but let's say these guys are pretty deep.

Thanks!

[Ben Young]

first, that picture is annoying.

I think you can call this, but don't raise.

[Hince]

If both players were deeper, I might reraise. I hate playing AK OOP when it misses, so I'd rather represent AA/KK and cont bet the flop hard.

With the short stacks, I think I just call, and try to hit the flop.

[los_toros]

I never reraise this here. I'd be folding if MP2's raise was larger, but UTG+1 is almost definitely calling so I call from the SB.

If it gets r/r-ed by UTG+1 for any reasonable amount I'm going to have to muck.