A hand like Axs can quite easily flop the nuts, or a strong draw to the nuts.
I don't know where you get that from. In general, with a hand like A4s its much easier to
lose your stack rather than getting someone else's.
With 2 suited cards you'll flop 4 to a flush 11% of the time. You'll then go on to actually complete the flush 1 time out of 3. Odds of flopping the flush are 118/1. All this hardly qualifies as a hand that "quite easily" will flop the nuts or have a strong draw to it.
That said, being that table is 5-handed I don't totally disagree with the PF call, that's not the reason I asked the question in my first post. I was just curious to hear opinions on it, as you can see if you read back I never said the call was terrible. A4s is a trouble hand that has some potential, but there is also much more that goes into the decision of calling or not. You may feel that you can outplay him on the flop, or villain has been raising a lot, or he was caught doing it with marginal hands etc etc. I don't think 1 can put a general rule when to call raises or reraise them, its kind of situational.
However what I disagree with is to call because with that hand you can easily flop the nuts or a strong draw to it. That's not true. If that's the only reason you're calling then you're better off to fold or reraise or shove, since the truth is you have a weak and easily dominated hand and you're also OOP.
I agree with your thoughts on that flop. If you're going to flop 2 pair HU and with those stacks, there is no getting away with it. You'll get your chips in 100% of times. That's bad luck and just about impossible to escape from it.
