$200 NLHE Full Ring: live game, fold AKoff, nitty or not?

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So I was playing in a live game at my local casino last night and this hand came up. The table has blinds of $1/$1 with a max buyin of $40, so it is a short stacked buyin table. Anyways, there were a few regs at my table but other than that I witnessed some extremely fishy play. I had $80 behind me, and I was dealt AcKs in the bb. The action went one caller in UTG+1 then one raise to $6 in MP then a re-raise to about $20 from the BTN. I thought for a while and made a really nitty fold of AK because I didn't think it would hold up in a 4way pot, and these players were very loose and would rarely fold pre flop. Just wanted some opinions on what the correct play in this spot would've been. A shove? For some info on the people involved in the hand, the player that originally raised was a good player, tight aggressive, not playing too many hands. The guy who 3bet had to rebuy several times while I was there, he was way too aggressive and paid me off a few times with a weaker kicker. And the guy who limped I had little reads on because he had recently joined the table. I folded because our stacks were so small that I didn't think I would get the guy that 3bet to fold because he already invested half his stack, and the original raiser was a good player that I didn't think would be raising with garbage, so I figured if I shoved against two opponents, at best it would be a coin-flip, which I didn't really want to do because I could outplay them in other hands that weren't just a tossup. Opinions?
 
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You have 80bb against players who will call with worse, it's a super standard shove.
 
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I dont think it was such a bad fold,if u had to gamble your whole bankroll at table right away with AK, against those types of players.you could just wait for a better spot i t hink there too,and if u said the other player was tight, but decent player, might have just been a coin flip then at best. GL hope you did well though.
 
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Why do you even play in games that are 40bb as a max buy in??
 
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I dont think it was such a bad fold,if u had to gamble your whole bankroll at table right away with AK, against those types of players.you could just wait for a better spot i t hink there too,and if u said the other player was tight, but decent player, might have just been a coin flip then at best. GL hope you did well though.

Why would anyone in their right mind have their whole bankroll at the table? This is an easy shove all day long of the week, they could easily have A/Q or lower and even if it is a coinflip it is still profitable as some of the time they will have A with a weaker kicker.
 
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Why do you even play in games that are 40bb as a max buy in??

Well, for one, I was tight on cash due to the holidays and I had under $100 to spend on poker, so i figured it was a better idea to play with two buyins on 40bb max tables and get more time to play then to buyin to a $1/$2 game and be really shortstacked. Please spare me the bankroll management lectures, I fully understand it, however, I had a little bit of extra spending money and wanted to play live at the casino for a change (my poker bankroll is online).
 
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Well, for one, I was tight on cash due to the holidays and I had under $100 to spend on poker, so i figured it was a better idea to play with two buyins on 40bb max tables and get more time to play then to buyin to a $1/$2 game and be really shortstacked. Please spare me the bankroll management lectures, I fully understand it, however, I had a little bit of extra spending money and wanted to play live at the casino for a change (my poker bankroll is online).

Ah, okay, I still think it's a shove though, can't play with scared money. This is a great opportunity to get it all in.
 
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