char's thoughts on AK

[chardrian]

I wrote a little sumtin about AK in the MTT section.

Here it is.

http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...=274339#274339

This is meant for MTTs (and probably SNGs although I don't really play those).

[ProZachNation]

It applys pretty well to SnGs, I have found it usefull in my SnGs.

I recomend this for any begginer its a great post.

[salsa4ever]

I endorse that post.

In particular, that you reraise one pre-flop raiser with AK is also paramount in a NL cash game.

It's your cheapest way to get away from AA/KK. (I've died on enough Kxx flops with AK against AA until I started to do this. Sure you might get a smooth call from AA, but sometimes you'll be re-raised, and then you can basically throw your hand away. You're also in a lot of trouble if you have AKs against AA/KK when you get overcards + flush draw or overcards + gutshot because you're likely to miscount your outs completely and donk off on a semi-bluff)

You're in position. You get so much more equity from pre flop re-raise, cont bet 95% of flops, raise if bet into 50% of the time if you miss than if you call and then fold to the cont bet. If you raise the cont-bet when you hit your hand, you're gonna be escalating the pot and setting yourself up to get destacked by AA/KK or QQ/JJ/TT on a Q/J/T high flop.

You might take it down pre flop. This is very important.

You get AK 32 times for each 24 times you get AA/KK (or exactly 32 times if you reraise QQ 2/3rds of the time). This way, your opponent doesn't know whether you're on overcards or overpair when you reraise before the flop.

[r8ed]

Nice post in simple terms. I'm sending this to my wife because I think AK is probably the hand she loses the most with. Since she refuses to listen to me, maybe she'll listen to somebody else.

[Miffed22001]

ak is so overrated

im sure someone has a sig that says AK 'the anna kornicova, looks good but doesnt win much'
My similar thoughts.

[chardrian]

I think people dislike AK because when you loes with it you often lose big... they just forget that when it wins, it wins big too.

I like AK lots.