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Call shove BTN w AKo?

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Hesticus
Joined: 24.06.2008

Poker Stars $2.00 No Limit Hold'em - 6 players - View hand 2933145
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MP: $6.84
CO: $2.00
Hero (BTN): $2.24
SB: $1.11 - VPIP: 71, PFR: 7, 3B: 0, AF: 2.0, Hands: 14
BB: $2.59 - VPIP: 52, PFR: 18, 3B: 10, AF: 12.5, Hands: 71
UTG: $2.00

Pre Flop: ($0.03) Hero is BTN with A :heart: K :club:
3 folds, Hero raises to $0.05, SB calls $0.04, BB raises to $2.59, Hero ???

It's still hard to determine for me whether we should call here with AKo without much info.


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la55i
Joined: 27.01.2013

It very much depends on villains range and that we can not know. Calling wouldn't be terrible but folding is ok too.
I think this is one of the spots where we shouldn't use much of our energy. Flip a coin and decide.


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RobG94
Joined: 27.11.2015

If it were me in this spot, I would be thinking, without any info on villain, I am only hoping to avoid AA, but would have to assume he isn't shoving with worse than a pair. (if he is shoving with AJ/AQ/AK, then happy days) , but I would put this hand on a pair vs overcards. Then its down to you to decide if you want to flip for your stack.
Again, if it were me, I would put into consideration that you may be against hands that you are dominating, so it would make ME more likely to call, hoping to run into those types of hands. And if its a flip, well, accept that sometimes you win... sometimes you lose
TLDR: I'd call here in this spot, but without any info, I wouldn't say that folding is a bad play


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tiltmonk
Joined: 02.07.2014

I guess it is an easy fold in most cases. But there is something to note before folding.
Did your opponent 3b-shove before? Or he just 3b with usual sizing? If he didn't 3b - shove before, I guess it is fold, if he did 3b-shove as an usual move, I guess could call, but in this case we a mainly flipping. To me we are just 45-46% equity spot, so I just put 3bb and have more that 100bb left in my stack, in this case - I'd just fold bcs of rake. it is about 3,5-4%


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nitrol
Joined: 24.07.2010

Vs unknown we can fold here as even vs JJ+, AK we are behind. Though I do not think he will be that wide.


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YohanN7
Joined: 15.06.2009

If say 15% of the population does this with air (when they do it), then it probably would be a call. Getting your hand on that kind of stats isn't easy.


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Alleen86
Joined: 27.05.2010
oI2ange
Joined: 21.07.2015

I think you can call and feel fine about it here. Villain seems fairly donkish given his play.


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Hesticus
Joined: 24.06.2008

Yeah well, I folded and lived another day ;)


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nitrol
Joined: 24.07.2010

You played just right then.


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