Wow this is a long time ago, yeh I remember this hand, and I remember the players too.
A few interesting things about this hand, firstly the other player in the hand by the river was John Depa, who IV since gotten good pals with, he's a really really good player and especially strong at live poker.
Preflop I really like the sound of 4betting to fold now, makes a lot of logical sense, not because I think we get action from the BTN with a range we crush (I don't think that at all actually) but we could freeze two v good players out of the pot and might even just take it down there which is pretty nice given how venerable our hand is from a playability angle - and ofc technically AK is one of the best "bluffing hands" for purely blocker value reasons, usually however the fact that 1) AK is too strong to fold and 2) you get jammed on wider these days makes this not the case generally. However if there was ever a situation where that WOULD be the perfect environment/situation for that to be the case then it's level one of the main event :-)
I know why I'd have flatted 2years ago and can't blame myself.
I dunno how there is any option but to call the flop as played?
Onto the river, whereas I get the point about jamming we have to remember that this is level 1 of the main event, a ten day tournament and were 95minutes in, there is little to no chance that jamming is +$EV given that just being in this tournament with 150bb gives you so much equity, if there is even a 5% chance he has AQ, AA or QQ then it's throwing money in the air by jamming I'm sure.
With this is mind I did fold, I didn't see a chance I was beating any value bets, although obviously could chop with a decent chunk of it, I also thought there was a decent chance John had an A or a Q (
Xs) and felt strongly the guy wasn't bluffing... So I folded as couldn't make a reasonable case for anything else...I didn't even consider jamming and wouldn't today I don't think.
Here's something interesting about this hand, I asked John about the hand later and he confessed he had Ax
... He folded behind me....
He said when he folded he thought my hand was 95%AK and 5% AJ.