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DannyHorsley
Joined: 03.12.2014

888 Poker - $0.05 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

UTG: 90 BB (VPIP: 30.77, PFR: 19.23, 3Bet Preflop: 12.50, Hands: 26)
MP: 95.4 BB (VPIP: 9.54, PFR: 4.61, 3Bet Preflop: 1.80, Hands: 304)
Hero (CO): 105.8 BB
BTN: 118.6 BB (VPIP: 30.77, PFR: 20.51, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 43)
SB: 115.4 BB (VPIP: 10.00, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 11)
BB: 100 BB (VPIP: 10.00, PFR: 10.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 11)

SB posts SB 0.4 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.4 BB) Hero has A♦ K♦

fold, fold, Hero raises to 3 BB, fold, SB calls 2.6 BB, BB raises to 13 BB, Hero raises to 30 BB, fold, fold

Hero wins 29 BB

So here as you can see, I make a 4bet with AKs and villain folds. A pretty standard hand I think.. However what I wanted to discuss was what if:

1) Villain 5bet shoves
2) Villain 5bet's to 60BB
3) Villain calls

Is AKs strong enough against an unknown to call a 5bet shove? I would probably say no.
Can we call a 5bet if villain only raises to 60BB? With effective stacks 100BB, am I best to just shove the final 40BB, call or fold? I am leaning more towards the idea of shoving, but then does that mean I should just call his shove in example 1?
If villain simply calls, his range is clearly capped. I don't have to worry about AA, KK and even QQ. But what does this mean? We still have to worry about JJ, TT etc when we miss.


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Sunrise1912
Joined: 24.11.2009

If you put 1/3 of your stack preflop you cant fold to a shove holding AK (mb if you have strong reads only or if you are UTG vs MP action, etc, however, CO vs BB vs unknown is always a 4bet for me). If you consider folding to a shove after your 4bet with AK you may as well play the same line with 72o and any 2 cards. Yes, his range might be QQ+ but you are doing fine mathematically against a QQ+ range after you've put 1/3 of your stack preflop.

Yet, most of the wins with AK would come from these spots where you 4bet with the two blockers and they fold. Holding A and K means villians are much less likely to have AA or KK as you block these combinations.


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Tonyx86
Joined: 28.03.2018

Originally posted by Sunrise1912

Yet, most of the wins with AK would come from these spots where you 4bet with the two blockers and they fold. Holding A and K means villians are much less likely to have AA or KK as you block these combinations.

This is the reason why its more likely to run into AA holding KK than with AK ;)


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LacsapR
Joined: 14.07.2011

I'd not be scared to go broke here on NL 5


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