AK hand

AK hand

I had AK, 300 buy in, 2nd level at 100-200-200. late raise by LJ to 500. 2 callers and I jam with AK in late position. LJ calls and two folds. I had about 16000 and the others had about 20-25k. I just got moved to the table so I knew nothing on the players. my thinking was there's plenty of dead money in the pot and there's enough for me and I should have the raiser dominated and same with the two callers. I lost a few pots earlier at the first table so I was a bit tilty, nothing serious. what do you think?

09 July 2026 at 05:56 AM
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I think you have 80 blinds and shouldn't be jamming preflop in this situation. You will be making it much easier for people to go all in than have to play postflop OOP. Especially with PP's like 99-JJ where overcards hit the flop and make it difficult for them to call. They will believe that nobody would ever do this with AA or KK.

My standard 3 bet size here would be 2500 and I would be OK with playing this pot HU in position. There are times SB or BB call with hands like TT/JJ or even 99/AQ which can make it difficult postflop 3 way. Typically in those situations I either bet big on the flop (sometimes jam or I check it back and see if they both check the turn and then I bet big). It is possible LJ will 4 bet preflop and in theory might jam to get it HU against you but they would not be doing that with worse Ax hands. It would mostly be PP's and in general you are flipping or it is KK and you have a 30% chance or if it is AA (which you block) then we are done. But we would be done vs AA anyway if we jammed vs the 500 open and KK is never folding to the jam either..

In general on the flop I will cbet HU and then bet the turn and sometimes that bet will be all in. When I have like 40 to 50 blinds I sometimes go all in on the flop but in general that happens when I am OOP in the SB or BB.


I think std squeeze to 15bbs. You want them still in the pot and better hands call you anyway. The point is to get value from worse hands.


by Mr Rick

I think you have 80 blinds and shouldn't be jamming preflop in this situation. You will be making it much easier for people to go all in than have to play postflop OOP. Especially with PP's like 99-JJ where overcards hit the flop and make it difficult for them to call. They will believe that nobody would ever do this with AA or KK.My standard 3 bet size here would be 2500 an

you're right. it was one the few times(small% of the time like 5%) where I like to do things different, I can't always play gto, I have to mix it up or I'll go insane. peak-gto liked my jam 8% of the time and I figured I can just pick up the dead money and chances are he won't call my jam like 85% of the time. even if he does call he could have, tens, jacks, queens, AQ, AJs, some times AK, and very rarely AA,KK. Thanks for your input.


Shove isn't that bad with the callers. However, better to 3! normally, even though it may be tricky to play when you miss.

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