Quote Originally Posted by wonderland
I figure that AKs is not great all in 3 way and i fold. I'm proceeding there with AA or KK. I was fairly short stacked too, $3. So had i maybe had a bigger stack i might have seen a flop.
Lots of things to comment on in the situation - I may or may not restrict myself to commenting on the quoted section.

The shorter you are, the more correct it is to go all-in preflop. By this I mean, with a 3bet and a 4bet people are looking to get all-in, so you don't really need to start thinking about seeing a flop and deciding what to do on the flop. What you need to do is decide whether you are going all-in and if you are,just do it pre-flop. This of couse assumes that they were making reasonable raise sizes and not min-raising both of them.

For the sake of argument I'll assume you were in early position, the weak/loose player was in late position and the other guy in the blinds. I'll assume these raise sizes: You to $0.20, weak/loose to $0.60, other guy to $2.00. With these kinds of raise size you are looking to either put $2.80 in to win $6.20 with two opponents or $3.80 with one opponent (if weak/loose folds - other guy never folding with the assumed bet sizes). So you need about 31% equity against two opponents or 42% against one opponent. It just so happens that you have that equity (better) against the actual hands, but that's pretty unimportant. What's important is if you have that kind of equity against all the hands they will have played in this exact way.

AKs is not the worst hand 3-way in a pre-flop all-in because you have a blocker to both the AA and the KK - the two hands you worry the most about - and it's suited. If you are up against underpairs any single A or K wins you the hand. If you are up against AQ/KQ or similar you dominate them. It's not fantastic if people ONLY go all-in pre-flop with AA and KK, but if there's any chance they go in with less it picks up a lot of equity.

All this said, you don't know enough about the opponents you play against to know that it's clearly +EV to play so I have no real problem with the 0EV play.

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