Your on the button, you look down at AK suited.
Limper then 2 bet and a 3 bet
Its on you.
4 bet, call or fold?
Its quite early in the tourney, equal chips. Live game.
I'm putting at least one of them on AA or KK which means they are ahead. Maybe QQ .
I fear if i 4 bet it will turn into a shove fest.
An expensive call?
Or let them fight it out.
Whats your play
Being this is all pre flop
So long as nothing has been overturned, statistically, AK SUITED on top of that - well- let's face it AK - I mean, that king won't ever have high card value in a flush- which reminds me of my thinking that even A2 suited as as good as AK suited- if as to a flush.
BUT - AK in that you said SUITED, sounds to me like you're thinking the BEST case scenario for that 4% runner runner?
OK I really don't know poker terms THAT well but that horrid movie with Ben Affleck - could have been a better movie - but it WAS called Runner Runner which got me googling if that line in the movie where the casino boss says 'and just what ARE the
odds pre flop for runner runner flush' and he says 3.8 or 4.2% etc.
I suppose EXACT odds depend on EXACT information, how many people at the table etc.
But how would "I" play AK suited ?
And PRE FLOP has been raised THREE TIMES ?
Eh - HARD TO SAY - someone has JJ and is pushing it? QQ ?
I saw ONE Youtube video and the pro goes 'and I've folded AK many a times, sometimes it's crap' - not sure on crap BUT sometimes they aren't useful.
ME? I'd call
SURE it could go into a shove fest - you can still back out of that - I'd say I have AK suited, one of the - if not THE best combinations to have pre flop...
But me? If it DID go shove fest? again, depends, where are we in the tournament, close to cashing? if cash game- where are we losses - etc...
I'll just say I'm not Mr. AK suited... I like guaranteed KK's AA's - JJ's HOWEVER - suited? I mean - you at LEAST have to call that third raise pre flop?
I'll just FINALIZE by saying, I have no problem folding AK suited if it goes to shove fest.
OR - take that GAMBLE - you're in PRETTY GOOD SHAPE to take it.
Me? I'm backing off if shove fest LIKELY.