$25 NLHE 6-max: AK 3bet?

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PokerStars - $0.25 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

CO: 100 BB (VPIP: 9.52, PFR: 7.14, 3Bet Preflop: 5.88, hands: 44)
BTN: 100 BB (VPIP: 19.51, PFR: 12.20, 3Bet Preflop: 14.29, Hands: 41)
Hero (SB): 139.48 BB
BB: 85.28 BB (VPIP: 59.09, PFR: 4.55, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 45)
UTG: 152.16 BB (VPIP: 16.48, PFR: 11.62, 3Bet Preflop: 3.67, Hands: 807)

Hero posts SB 0.4 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.4 BB) Hero has A K

fold, CO raises to 3 BB, BTN raises to 9.6 BB, Hero raises to 35 BB, fold, CO raises to 82 BB, fold

Hero ??
 
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Call it off bro, this is in the chart.
 
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I would have just called without 4bet. Don't create yourself complicated situation if you don't know what to do farther. High probability that villain has AA, KK. If any weaker hand - he won't pay you in case of appearance of ace or king on board. Here I would fold too.
 
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Call. I would have called the 3bet instead of 4betting but as played I'm calling this all in with AK.
 
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I actually folded ..
seemed too obvious he had AA or KK . but well.. maybe it was a mistake
 
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You cold 4 bet AK and got min 5 bet by the original raiser, snap folding all day. We only need 30% equity to GII pre but I really doubt someone this nitty ever has anything other then AA/KK here and I honestly think his range leans heavily towards AA.

This could become a leveling spot since BTN seems to be a 3 bet monkey so CO may think you picked up on that but I don't think I would level myself this hard here. What was your image like?
 
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You raised WAY to big to beable to fold your hand, you have put a 3rd of your stack out there, with the dead money you have to be committed. I would say 24-26bbs you could possibly get away, but now you just have to embrace variance.
 
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fold ur never ahead of anything. and AK is best possible scenario.
 
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You raised WAY to big to beable to fold your hand, you have put a 3rd of your stack out there, with the dead money you have to be committed. I would say 24-26bbs you could possibly get away, but now you just have to embrace variance.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but talking about dead money and commitment always sounds like bull to me. When you're behind, you fold, no matter how much of your chips have gone in or how "committed" you supposedly are.
 
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but talking about dead money and commitment always sounds like bull to me. When you're behind, you fold, no matter how much of your chips have gone in or how "committed" you supposedly are.
Learn math please.

I'm going to bet 1 cent into a pot of 13 billion, please fold your kings when I flip up my aces.

Finally, your opponent has to be incredibly nitty to make 4bet/folding profitable. 3 betting less than 3.5%.
 
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Learn math please.

I'm going to bet 1 cent into a pot of 13 billion, please fold your kings when I flip up my aces.
Please.
I'm calling 1 cent into a 13 billion pot even if I don't beat the board. But this hand is not about calling 1 cent into a 13 billion pot.

In this hand, it's about calling 47$ into a 127$ pot where our equity is a mere 23% vs KK+, and a mere 12% vs AA.

We have just the right odds to call if his range is exactly QQ+/AKs. And then it's a 0EV call.
We can only make a profit on this call if AKo or JJ are also in his range. The wider, the better.
Are you confident he's this wide with his 5-betting? I wouldn't be. And I fail to see how we're "committed" in this spot.

Finally, your opponent has to be incredibly nitty to make 4bet/folding profitable. 3 betting less than 3.5%.
Without stats on the opponent's 4- and 5-betting tendencies, we can't know if he 5-bets wider than KK+ or even if he does so wider than just AA.
 
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Without stats on the opponent's 4- and 5-betting tendencies, we can't know if he 5-bets wider than KK+ or even if he does so wider than just AA.
You don't need to know what his 5- bet range is. If he 3-bets more than 3.5% here, we profit calling it off.

I link to this probably once a month. No one reads it. Be the first: https://www.cardschat.com/forum/cash-games-11/

Read "Facing a Preflop 3-bet" attached to the post.
 
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but talking about dead money and commitment always sounds like bull to me. When you're behind, you fold, no matter how much of your chips have gone in or how "committed" you supposedly are.


Because he raised bigger is going to need less equity to call.
 
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