AK against equally big stack pre-flop raiser late in tourney

[bema03]

Live Foxwoods $80+20 NL hold'em. 141 entries. 2000 starting stack. 15 players remain at 2 tables, so average stack is ~19000. I have ~27000 in chips. Blinds: 1500/3000, 500 ante.

Big blind is all-in pre-flop with ~2500. Two folds. Guy to my right with ~25000 raises to 7500 (reads: tight but isn't savvy on his own or others' stack sizes, how much to raise, etc.) I have three people to act behind me (cutoff, button and small blind).

I look down at AK offsuit. What should I do?

I should add that the payout goes approximately like this:

1:$3000, 2:$2000, 3:$1000, 4:$800, 5:$700, 6:$600, 7:$500, 8:$400, 9:$300, 10:$200, 11-20:$160

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I'll post what I did a little bit later.

[Soulman]

Straightforward push. Really, no question.

[mornelth]

push 120% of the time, fold the rest...

What is it with all the "I have AK and the pot is raised, what do I do" posts lately???

You are BADLY behing only 2 hands (AA and KK) and they are somewhat less likely because you are holding one of each. You are ahead of all other Aces, you're flipping with pocket pairs and by pushing you may fold some of the small-medium pocket pairs. You cannot "call and see the flop" because you are letting QQ- get away from A or K high flop but you are losing value when you miss the flop and QQ- bets you out of the pot (when you would have caught your A or K on the next 2 cards).

Unless you read on the raiser is that he's a super-rock - push and if he has KK+ - NH, GG, IGHN.

[SilverLining1]

Push.

It's not so much if the guy has KK or AA. It's the blinds, the antes, and the payout structure that counts.

Argun

[nath]

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What is it with all the "I have AK and the pot is raised, what do I do" posts lately???

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[bema03]

Thanks for the help. I got timid and just called the raise pre-flop and then folded on the flop when it came with rags. The guy turned over JJ against the all-in player (K-rag) and the turn and river came up empty (meaning no A or K). I ended up taking 5th in the tourney but had been wondering about this particular hand, thinking that I probably should've pushed.

See ya!