Quote Originally Posted by Element187
calling is probably the biggest mistake here, if you do spike your ace or king on the flop, and make a bet, he would fold and you only win the amount of his reraise.. more then likely, you will miss and be forced to fold. if you call and an ace or king spikes, you could behind and lose your stack.


Beautiful post. I think he's got it right on.


Also, pushing with AK in 50NL is not going to work out as often as it might in other games because like you said, people over value the hell out of pocket pairs.