4/8 AK Flop Top Pair

[mayday4379]

Villain was about 36/20/3 after 50 or so hands. I hadn't seem him get out of line. I was playing very few pots and not getting tangled up at all.

Prima Poker skin
No Limit Holdem Ring game
Blinds: $4/$8
5 players


Pre-flop: (5 players) Hero is SB with :a [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] :k [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]
[color=#cc0000]UTG raises to $24</font>, CO calls, Button folds, Hero calls, BB folds.

Flop: :q [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] :a [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] :9 [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] ($80, 3 players)
Hero checks, [color=#cc0000]UTG bets $88</font>, CO folds, Hero calls.

Turn: :2 [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] ($256, 2 players)
Hero checks, [color=#cc0000]UTG bets $320</font>, Hero calls.

River: :2 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] ($896, 2 players)
[color=#cc0000]Hero is all-in $339.2</font>.

[DrPublo]

Looks fine here, since the A is a club I'm not worried about a flush draw. He might call the river with any A putting you on busted clubs.

I should also note that I reraise this pf a very high % of the time, especially when there is a caller in the middle. But calling wiht AKo OOP is fine too.

Hope he didn't have AQ.

The Doc

[Terrabon98]

c/r turn AI

[JasonP530]

reraise preflop. Played pretty well, but you might as well get it in on the turn in case he has a draw. He is calling the river the same as your c/r allin on the turn with a made hand.

[Bet]

I wouldn't be getting too excited here you are favourite to lose this hand if called but with the pot laying 4:1 there's nothing you can do. AQ A9 AA QQ 99 make up a lot of his range here but w/ AK AJ AT possible you can't fold, and betting all in is better than checkcalling all to not let AJ AT check behind.