NL50 - AK 4bet sanity check

[0uTpLaYeD]

No real reads on villain yet, first time he 4bet me. He is running at 20/7/3 over just 87 hands. I was playing 19/16/4 at the time.

Poker Stars, $0.25/$0.50 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 6 Players
LegoPoker Hand History Converter

CO: $20.70
BTN: $138.60
Hero (SB): $57.55
BB: $49.50
UTG: $21.90
MP: $51.75

Pre-Flop: A[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] K[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] dealt to Hero (SB)
2 folds, <font color="red">CO raises to $2</font>, BTN folds, <font color="red">Hero raises to $6.50</font>, <font color="red">BB raises to $22</font>, 2 folds

Results: $15 Pot
BB mucked and WON $15 (+$8.50 NET)

[TS Clark]

What are you asking here? If it's OK to fold AKs pre-flop in this spot?

I guess it is. The guy you are playing against certainly seems reasonable. Without reads, it's just a question of whether you want to stack off with your hand. If so, then just push and watch. You obviously can't just call PF.

If it were me, I probably stack off here. Heads up for only 100BB, I'm generally pretty OK with getting it in with AKs pre-flop against all but the world's biggest nits.

[whyzze]

pfr ~7 is too low for me to put my money. I fold.

[Khumalo]

If you've never seen him get out of line preflop and your image is solid (you said no real reads, so that's not a terrible assumption given your respective stats), the remaining factor is CO's image; if he's a monkey or whatever, then your SB raise might be read as an isolation play, which widens BB's range. Otherwise, this looks like JJ+ to me, and you have virtually no FE after he puts in $22, so I can understand finding a fold here. It's very close though, since he has fewer combos of AA/KK and might occasionally be pulling this with AQs -- so if there are any image/meta/situational considerations that slightly widen his range, you really should shove.