$200 NLHE Full Ring: How do I play AK in this spot?

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Live game. Eff 150ish and all players cover me.

AKo in the BB.UTG +2 raises to 8$. He had been open raising quite a bit with a real wide range and folding to pressure. Another random lady calls. Cutoff raises to 30$. He was a bully so to speak but not a dangerous one seemed more like he was raising cuz he read somewhere you should be "aggressive" in low stakes game. (This via observation and table talk) Button calls. Very tight older gentlemen.SB calls, he had worked up a big stack with a combination of running ok and playing boldly in some spots.

When bully raised i intended to reraise him all in giving him 1.7 odds to call with lots of his crap. Button and SB foiled my plans here though. Is this a good approach to playing in this spot? How about reshipping all in?

I just overcalled everybody with 3.5 to 1 odds and missed the flop.

Comments on this type of situation?

Also I was suuuuuuper card dead the whole time. What do you do in those spots? Just ride it out? Make a play, bluff raise? It always seems like i am card dead get a very strong hand and bust with it as in its not my night. What do you guys do in extreme card deadness?

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You can expect the two callers, Random Lady and SB to fold almost always and based on your descriptions of the opener and CO I think shoving takes this down often and your hand fairs well enough when called. This might even be a good squeeze spot with almost any 2 cards. But you don't have any 2, you have a primo hand, so the question is whether shoving is more or less profitable than calling or raising. I think any modest raise is going to get called around often and being so far OOP I think you're going to have to hit your hand to have any chance of taking it down. And even then you won't feel good about getting in if anyone stick around. SPR is only about2:1. Boy, the more I think about it the more I like the shove. Go for it!
 
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shove or fold pre. Especially against the bully.

AK we have blockers as well so less likely the original raiser has AA or KK and the guy who flat is capped.

If we call the $30 we are committed.
 
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Ship it.

We almost double our stack if they fold. Id consider doing this with 88+ and AJ+ as well because of the dead value.
 
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I think shove or fold. I think only person calling would be cutoff Based on information given I would think everyone else is folding. Given the amount in the middle I would put it all in.
 
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yes fold or shove pre and if u are card dead you have to make a stand sooner or later.
 
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I have watched a few televised cash games, and in this situation, unless they were trying to be tricky, every pro with AK in BB shoves in this situation. Not saying it is the correct move, just saying that whether they won or lost, the pro's always shoved here.
 
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For me it's an easy fold .

So many have entered the hand that it makes very dangerous shoving cause I don't think we have enough fold equite ,many might call ,many are to have highcards so we might not hit the board .

We might have been card dead for so long or get short blinded , but now is not the time to gamble I guess .

On the other hand , calling is a similar story, many have entered , even high pair might not be the winner hand, we might get trapped to draws and two pairs , we will lose the tournament or pay too much for this trap or we won't hit anything on flop, as it happenned , and we will have lost some more blind, as if those having got lost by the card dead session eren't enough ....

!!!Attention!!! We have a fold here :D
 
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Easy fold. Somebody has JJ-AA here. When you see THIS much action, it's almost never pure psychological plays. The most likely scenario is at least one person has a super premium hand. Unless you're just at an extremely loose table where every other pot is like this. In that case, I don't hate or like the shove.
 
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Live game. Eff 150ish and all players cover me.

AKo in the BB.UTG +2 raises to 8$. He had been open raising quite a bit with a real wide range and folding to pressure. Another random lady calls. Cutoff raises to 30$. He was a bully so to speak but not a dangerous one seemed more like he was raising cuz he read somewhere you should be "aggressive" in low stakes game. (This via observation and table talk) Button calls. Very tight older gentlemen.SB calls, he had worked up a big stack with a combination of running ok and playing boldly in some spots.

When bully raised i intended to reraise him all in giving him 1.7 odds to call with lots of his crap. Button and SB foiled my plans here though. Is this a good approach to playing in this spot? How about reshipping all in?

I just overcalled everybody with 3.5 to 1 odds and missed the flop.

Comments on this type of situation?

Also I was suuuuuuper card dead the whole time. What do you do in those spots? Just ride it out? Make a play, bluff raise? It always seems like i am card dead get a very strong hand and bust with it as in its not my night. What do you guys do in extreme card deadness?

Thanks

I haven't read any of the replies. That being said, fold pre.

The reason why I say this is because many of your outs are likely gone (others calling with Broadway cards and A-x). Not to mention, even table bullies get hands every once in a while.

I just don't think it's a good spot.

Fold pre. On to the next hand. If the pot had not been 3b already, we can 3b. But considering current action, it's a fold in my book. Maybe I'm a nit? I don't like giving people shots at me and flipping for $150.
 
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I think with 70 in the pot, you having 150 or less, a shove with AK is fine. I prob flat the 30 here too though.
 
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