$2 NLHE 6-max: AK facing a 5bet A.I

I don't know about these situations personally...I never seen this villain react like this at all, but I knew this was something in the making..

The reasons I believe it was in the making was because I just kept on raising majority of hands preflop+3bet hands pre just against certain players, and Cbetting a ton of dry flops to take it down post..

So I figured someone eventually would get tired of it, but I mean usually they played passively in 3bet pots vs me, now It's a 5 bet shove and I don't know If I should ever really call in these cases..

I mean we both are deep, so It don't make any sense at all to want to get it in without the goods correct? I mean my hand is a decent hand HU but in a 5 bet pot I don't really know where it stands anymore..

Should I ever fold this hand at these limits? Should I call and just take a note on what they were shoving? Should I fold and just save myself money?



poker stars $2.00 No Limit Hold'em - 6 players - View hand 2002311
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MP: $0.34 - VPIP: 35, PFR: 16, 3B: 0, AF: 1.8, Hands: 31
CO: $2.77 - VPIP: 20, PFR: 13, 3B: 9, AF: 5.5, Hands: 55
BTN: $1.01 - VPIP: 38, PFR: 13, 3B: 0, AF: Infinity, Hands: 8
SB: $2.36 - VPIP: 67, PFR: 17, 3B: 0, AF: 0.6, Hands: 12
BB: $0.56 - VPIP: 86, PFR: 38, 3B: 0, AF: 1.8, Hands: 29
Hero (UTG): $5.76 - VPIP: 22, PFR: 14, 3B: 5, AF: 1.7, Hands: 30085

Pre Flop: ($0.03) Hero is UTG with A :spade: K :heart:
Hero raises to $0.06, 1 fold, CO raises to $0.21, 3 folds, Hero raises to $0.55, CO raises to $2.77, Hero?

Dont 4bet AK without the intention of calling shoves is probably a very good rule to go by 99.9% of the time.

Not sure if I discussed this with you or someone else but at 2nl/5nl, 4 betting AK is probably not going to be profitable at all. Generally, we're going to come up against AK/QQ+ unless we know villain has a history for shoving JJs or AQ 250bbs deep. But yeah Acky makes a great point about not 4-betting without the intention of calling off when villain shoves.

Also, was it standard for this villain to 3-bet a UTG raiser 3.5 times the size of the original raise? Seems like a really strong move.

Given stack sizes, position, and stakes, folding is prolly okay. But like Acky said, you should very rarely fold AK once you 4-bet.