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wilywiles
Rock Star
Silver Level
Getting married to your hand can cost you a lot of a chips. Im telling you from experience. AK is one of em. AA, KK, QQ, and even JJ have cost me plenty of chips in the past. AK is the most constant disappointer. Getting too much money in before the flop by raising and calling a reraise or pounding the limpers with AK and getting raised over the top. AK by far is the biggest loser on this list. Mostly for tournament poker, because as the blinds get larger, the number of hands you can play before the blinds chew the rest of your stuck up gets progressively smaller. When the blinds begin to make up a significant portion of your chips, the range of hands you can play narrows. Sometimes the best move is to limp with AK, try to see a flop without a raise. If someone raises me when I have AK, Ima call anyways, so why not see the flop cheap, especially so out of early position. Many people will tell you that you have two ways to win the pot by raising: one, everyone can fold. Two, your hand hits. But with a hand like AK, frankly you do want to play for all you chips. Because often times enough, especially in the later rounds of the tournament, reraise means pocket pair, and pocket pair means AK has anywhere from a 50 percent to a 96 percent chance of losing. Not too mention a chip leader trying to just make a move with a hand like 98 suited and flop comes 6 7 9.