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I folded AK pre-flop
jugglegeek
Member Posts: 623
Playing a £10 freezeout at the casino and we are seven handed on the last two tables. I'm in the small blind with 25BBs, to my left BB is a supper agro player who has been raising most unopened pots and has made a few squeeze type players. Button is a good player and the only player I'm worried about. UTG and UTG+1 are two nits who like to see cheap flops hi-jack player has gone home and we are just blinding out his stack and cut-off is another nit who has only raised once pre-flop so far and showed KK.
UTG limps UTG+1 min-raises, cut-off and button flat call. I look down at AKo and then notice UTG reaching for chips to call. My only option is to shove all in according to proper poker stratergy but It just feels wrong. I think I have such an edge over my table at the moment that I don't really want to risk a coin flip against a pocket pair which from the action I'm assuming at least one player has. I have nothing committed so far so I folded and instantly regretted it.
I went on to win the tournement for a nice £90 but I can't really explain with logic why I folded this hand. Online I never would have done. But my instict before I even looked at my cards after all that action ahead of me was to fold just about everything in this spot
UTG limps UTG+1 min-raises, cut-off and button flat call. I look down at AKo and then notice UTG reaching for chips to call. My only option is to shove all in according to proper poker stratergy but It just feels wrong. I think I have such an edge over my table at the moment that I don't really want to risk a coin flip against a pocket pair which from the action I'm assuming at least one player has. I have nothing committed so far so I folded and instantly regretted it.
I went on to win the tournement for a nice £90 but I can't really explain with logic why I folded this hand. Online I never would have done. But my instict before I even looked at my cards after all that action ahead of me was to fold just about everything in this spot
Comments
Nits who like to see cheap flops arent nits.
folding AK with 25BB can never be good surley.
shove anyway, can only call with premiums so.....
if you 4 bet, UTG may call and then everyone calls
Looks like a pretty great shoving spot to me, unless you think utg+1 only minraises monsters.
I doubt you have as big an advantage over table as you seem to think 25bb deep, its usually too shallow to have enough of an advantage to pass any decent +EV spots. Also dont think calling is completely out of the question