Extremly Interesting First hand in a Stars $6.50

[vMario]

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If he tells you he has AK you still fold

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This is very very very wrong.
Read famous gigabet post.

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I personally think that this is very bad advice for low stakes Sit & Go's. You should always fold 55 this early, if your opponent is holding AK. This is something related to Sklansky's "You're broke - You're gone" topic and by this, I mean you consider yourself being better ( Or even best ) than majority of the entrants on the field.

[Parvex]

If we knew he would do this with atc, it would be 60/40 in our favor. Hard to pass such an edge, even in an SNG in my opinion.
But as we dont know, what his pushing rang is, we cant realy call for obv. reasons. So i would fold here in light speed.

[Luisgallo]

Let' say you pass.

Would you fold anything besides AA and KK?

If you are suggesting folding a pair vs AK then you have to consider that pushing AK is always correct preflop.

If I have AK and I am sure you will fold anything else than AA and KK I will have to push in hand 1 because otherwise I will massively underdog seeing only 3 cards.

AK is willing to push to see 5 cards but if he pushes you fold at the same time AK pushes knowing is underdog.

So who is doing the mistake? Clearly whoever is passing the edge.

With cards face up is always incorrect, excluding bubble plays, to pass an edge; assumptions like "i am so much better than my opponents that I can pass this one" are totally irrelevant.

I also understand your point that in a 6.5 you might actually have the edge later on but let's say you are playing a 300$+ where you know your edge is close to 0, are you going to pass consistently these spots?