AK facing re-raise w/ awkward stacks

[PhatPots]

Fairly early in the tournament, Hero has picked up a nice stack. Should be easy, but having trouble with some preflop situations.

Avg stack is about 11,000

Hero has 21,000
Button has 14,500
Sb has 11,500

Blinds are 100/200


Preflop: Hero is MP with A [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] K [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]
<font color="red">Hero raises to 600</font>, Button calls, <font color="red">Sb re-raises to 3,000</font> , hero?

I think this is a fold because a raise that big tells me I have no fold equity. Must be up against a pair.

I don't think I can flat call this. The pot will be 6,500 and the villain will have 8,000 behind.


Thoughts?

[ItalianFX]

I don't know. I'm not much for advice in a spot like this. Your analysis seems to weigh towards an unquestionable fold. If you miss, you're going to have to fold to a c-bet, and anything else is going to start committing you to the pot.

I would probably fold and find a better spot.

Edit: Dang, 2+2 is so slow. Anyways, I missed that the Button called. This seems like a classical squeeze here. You raised, button called, and now SB reraises. You have to fear that Button may have a good hand and come back over the top, so you fold. That is the basic idea behind the play...I think. Do you have any reads on SB? Sounds like a squeeze and an aggressive play may be to come back and push. I'd be interested in other opinions.

[ItalianFX]

Here is a similar post from Bond18:

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showfl...;gonew=1#UNREAD

[kuro]

Shove. Folding equity + money already in the pot makes it worth the chance you get called and are flipping. It's not AA/KK enough with villains large bet size and you having AK to worry about the times you get it in as a significant underdog. You've got almost twice villains stack so it's not even a big deal if you flip and lose.

[Sherman]

Well, somone else mentioned that you have FE here, but I doubt it. Your table image would be helpful.

Anyhow, as a general rule of thumb, I don't fold AK PF. So I shove here.

[PhatPots]

I didn't have any reads at this moment. But it has to be JJ+ or at a minimum TT, if not AA or KK. This is in the Sunday Million and although a large bet with AA and KK is usually not the right play, the Sunday Million has a lot of Donks and a lot of Pros. So the range of players and skill levels is huge.


Ne wayz, I folded, Button shoved, sb called. Button had AA and Sb had AK.

So good fold by me [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[SeanyBullets]

I like to think I'd fold this. I'd see this as a classic squeeze with a pair or a decent Ax. I don't think I'd want to flip for over half my stack and there's always the chance the button is trying to induce the squeeze.

[ZJ123]

Shove