But even in a situation when a loose deepstack shoves and the other deepstack is aware of that and you expect him to be making that call with AQ, you have to fold AK, because the hand has only 35% equity to come out on top assuming the shover has TT or JJ and the caller has AQ.
QQ in the same situation I would be inclined to call, but then again it depends on a lot of factors.
I agree with you, here, that as usual it depends, but I'm also more inclined to make the call with QQ because it's now at least plausible that they might be sharing eachother's outs. OR, you might be facing 1 underpair and 2 overs.
With QQ the only extremely terrible situation for you is when they have AA or KK. it's possible, but not extremely likely. Out of all the possible hands that you might be facing only 2 are really bad news.
Holding QQ it's also possible that 1 of them has AK and the other has JJ. And this situation is so profitable for you to essentially get to flip with a lot of dead money in the pot....that you have to be REALLY convinced you are beat in at least 1 spot to fold.
Now, give me the same situation with AK and now it's A LOT more likely that some of my outs are already dead. Meaning my "flip" is not really a flip at all.
Because of all this, I'm more inclined to fold the AK to significant pressure and call with the QQ....depending on a ton more factors, of course.
And, I've never really heard this talked about much...I don't really know how to say it other than this: AK is really only ever "flipping" if you KNOW all your outs are live. in a 9 handed game you can never KNOW all your outs are live because people routinely fold Ace rag and King rag and King medium. If you hold the pair....you don't need to know anything about which cards have already been folded because you've already got your made hand. You're not playing for set value, you're playing the intrinsic value of your hand....I guess in short I'm trying to say: A bird in the hand is worth 2 in the bush. Or, a made hand is worth more than a bunch of hopefully live outs.