$200 NLHE Full Ring: Live game: AKo 175 BBs deep, shortstack shove UTG, UTG+1 call, 6 to act behind

$200 NL HE Full Ring: Live game: AKo 175 BBs deep, shortstack shove UTG, UTG+1 call, 6 to act behind

This hand came up last night in a live game I play at an underground poker room.

Situation: This is a very soft $1/$2 game with a lot of crazy players. Hand previous to this, woman shoved all in shortstacked with K9s, got called by a reasonably decent player with A3o. They agreed to run it 3 times...she won twice, giving her $47.

Now, she's UTG, goes all in, same guy calls her. Pot is $97. I'm sitting with $350 and AKo; there are 6 left to act...I'm second biggest stack at table, most of them range between $50-$200 with one monster stack around $600.

What's my play here?

Push all in?

You could assume a couple things. UTG raise could be anything reasonable/marginal. (JT+,any pair)

You could probably assume that the same guy who called her the first time, might hold a similar holding something along KT+,Ax+,most pairs)

Your ace king is far ahead of both, with a decent price if your slightly behind a pair.


I think it'll be hard pressed for someone to wake up with a monster (AA/KK) behind you... any other pair you have a good gamble.

thanks, do you think it is a fairly obvious move? I felt I had no other play here, calling was terrible as it creates a huge pot OOP that anyone with position and playable cards can enter...a pot so huge that i'd be forced to peel a reasonable flop bet with no draw..i'm in a world of hurt if someone wants to reraise with QQ-TT.

My play was highly criticized. Someone folded QQ and another folded TT...UTG+1 folded 66 (which turned a straight) as loose as most were preflop, no one seemed too eager to flip for stacks so I'm representing KK+.

Clear reraise.

I like how people are criticizing your play when your raise folded out their winning hands. THATS THE PURPOSE OF BETTING! Lol, are they serious?

Super standard

Pretty standard re-raise, and judging by stack sizes its an all in push.

Only reason you shouldn't re-raise is some sort of read on the other opponents or if your not willing to gamble while being a slight dog for a good price.


Fold equity w/ AK shove, they are just mad cause they would have won, if an ace spikes you would clean the table if they call w/ QQ and 66.

This is cash game not a tournament. Why the other players got mad is beyond me. Its not like the other two players would have been knocked out of the game, they can rebuy in. And for your sake, I hope they did.