4-of-a-Kind
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: The University of TEXAS at Austin
Posts: 2,237
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Actually, there's quite a stir about whether AK is a good hand. I know a person who earns a lot who folds AK EVERY time, because he's convinced it's a money loser.
Why? When you hit that A or K, you're still not golden. A set will now OWN you and it will take you a lot of discipline to lay down TPTK.
When you don't hit that A or K, you're reduced to bluffing. And normally, that means close to a pot sized bet. So let's say the pot is $40. You each put in $20 preflop (assuming one opponent). Now you're going to bet $40 more to try to win that $40, but only $20 of that is NOT originally yours.
So to sum up, you're betting $60 to win $20. And this will not work anywhere near enough times to show you a profit (It will have to work 4 out of 5 times in order for this play to be profitable).
So...yeah. Throughout a bazillion AK's...I am barely up. I think 16 times the blind or something like that. But perhaps I'm lucky. I know I love it when the other guy has AK, because it's easy to trash it.
At any rate, I still can't bring myself to fold AK usually preflop. I'll limp with it from early and raise with it from late, but yeah...the guy I know who always folds AK? He earns about...oh...18 times what I do, so yeah.
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