AKs huge pot

[NinaWilliams]

Only reads are that CO is pretty tight, 23/13/2.

Absolute Poker
Limit Holdem Ring game
Limit: $2/$4
6 players
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Pre-flop: (6 players) Hero is UTG with A[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] K[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]
<font color="#cc0000">Hero raises</font>, UTG+1 calls, CO calls, Button folds, <font color="#cc0000">SB 3-bets</font>, <font color="#cc0000">BB caps</font>, Hero calls, UTG+1 calls, CO calls, SB calls.

Flop: 6[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] 9[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] K[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] (20SB, 5 players)
<font color="#cc0000">SB bets</font>, BB calls, Hero calls, UTG+1 calls, CO calls.

Turn: 7[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] (12.5BB, 5 players)
<font color="#cc0000">SB bets</font>, <font color="#cc0000">BB raises</font>, <font color="#cc0000">Hero 3-bets</font>, UTG+1 folds, CO calls, SB folds, <font color="#cc0000">BB raises all-in $15</font>, Hero calls, CO calls.

River: 4[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] (24.75BB, 2 players + 1 all-in - Main pot: 24.75BB)
<font color="#cc0000">Hero bets</font>, CO folds.
Uncalled bets: 1BB returned to Hero.

Results:
Final pot: 24.75BB

[MacGuyV]

Meh, this hand has so many oddities to it...
I'd start by raising the flop. Normally I'd call down from the turn &amp; hope BB doesn't have AA but since he's shortstacked &amp; all-in on the 3bet I'm not sure why you didn't cap.

[Oink]

I would jam the flop, but I cant remember the last time I played a 5-way flop so my advice is prolly useless. (Even more so than usual)

The pot is huge so this would be a good spot to be aggro to get as many folds as possible, no?

[KDawg]

i'm going ahead and raising teh flop. with a pot this big on the flop and with so many people in it, hand protection pretty much goes out teh window and we have to try to get as much value as possible. outside of teh flop line, this looks fine since the BB is short stacked, so they're likely to be stacking off on teh turn

[maniacut]

The pot is huge and you are not going to have a chance to protect your 1 pair hand here, raise the flop for value and probably call down vs further aggression.

[Fonzi]

I like waiting for the turn in this one, that play is actually coverd in HEFAP and SSHE, "when a flop raise won't protect your hand" or something. I also like it, because there aren't many draws on this board, meaning that if you wait to the turn raise, you make more value on a hand you are probably ahead in. your only losing here to Aces, a set, 2 pr, or a gut shot. Given the action and the BBs short stack, I would play this the same way.


Fonzi

[maniacut]

Your biggest concern with a pot this huge is protection but the pot is so huge that unless the turn action goes exactly the way it did, somebody behind you has a profitable call with a gutshot.