$1.10 NLHE MTT: 1st hand of the tournament, AK, two all in's, fold?

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Your goal should be to place in the money, and the lower limits require you to play tight if you want to accomplish this. You need to wait for the right hand and the right situation before you make your move, and if that means folding AK against 2 shoves, or any marginal hand in a questionable situation, that's what you have to do. If he's green M-zone this is a fold; he can afford to wait for a better spot where he's more sure of his odds.

There's no reason to risk your entire stack on a marginal situation in the early stages when you still have a big stack compared to the blinds; there WILL be a better opportunity to get chips.

Out of interest what range of hands do you suspect first and second villain to be shoving here? (It's hard without reads, take an educated guess).
 
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