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I want to know how you would play AK in this situation, would  you do same pre flop re raise and what would you do after flop.

Seat 1: cruellade (2010 in chips)
Seat 2: Costy (1420 in chips)
Seat 3: ROOKIE21 (1450 in chips)
Seat 4: padiddy (1430 in chips)
Seat 5: Mrrios (1980 in chips)
Seat 6: kieranmah (1081 in chips)
Seat 7: Billham (1476 in chips)
Seat 8: jontickle (1391 in chips)
Seat 9: wgfunk (1351 in chips)
Seat 10: L2theB (1430 in chips)
ROOKIE21: posts small blind 15
padiddy: posts big blind 30
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to cruellade [Ad Kc]
Mrrios: folds
kieranmah: calls 30
Billham: raises to 60
jontickle: folds
wgfunk: folds
L2theB: folds
cruellade: raises to 175
Costy: folds
ROOKIE21: folds
padiddy: folds
kieranmah: calls 145
Billham: calls 115
----- FLOP ----- [Ts 3c 5h]
kieranmah: checks
Billham: checks
cruellade: ??????

Secondly, would you call here being 95% sure he has 99 or TT

Seat 1: 6_figure (2035 in chips)
Seat 2: Bogarde (3200 in chips)
Seat 3: cruellade (2930 in chips)
Seat 4: jim bond (4125 in chips)
Seat 5: lukemoy (2964 in chips)
Seat 6: fastfoot (9071 in chips)
Seat 7: wgfunk (4038 in chips)
Seat 8: Gambler82 (5325 in chips)
Seat 9: larey1 (1370 in chips)
Seat 10: Tinylight (1008 in chips)
Gambler82: posts small blind 75
larey1: posts big blind 150
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to cruellade [5c 5d]
Tinylight: folds
6_figure: calls 150
Bogarde: folds
cruellade: calls 150
jim bond: folds
lukemoy: folds
fastfoot: folds
wgfunk: raises to 870
Gambler82: folds
larey1: folds
6_figure: folds
cruellade: ????

insta fold

This early in a stt?

I like the pre flop re raise and am definitely fireing the flop

If its an STT with the AK I dislike the pre-flop raise, and definately don't like firing on the flop.

O.K, Imagine you did re-raise pre flop, you're not fireing that flop after its checked to you?

I think it is a crypto mtt 1500 starting chips . I dont mind the play so far I dont bet the flop tho.

 ;iagree; but it's a mtt, I still don't like the re-raise because you can't push people off anything on crypto early on with commiting most of your stack (and even then that's sometimes not enough! - I'll save my 50p for another time though :D). Just call the min-raise because when you do hit, the smaller aces and kings always pay you off.

If its a crytpo stt then i'm even more inclined to play it strong.

The guys that double the blinds from form early on a crypto medium level stt nearly always have a marginal hand kq, a10, ect, or an absolute monster and are willing to let everyone in with it.

I dont want a 5 handed pot with my AK even if it is early in a tourney, your in front pre flop and letting worse players catch up for free and losing the value of your hand, i want to isolate one player or make the guys that are willing to get there chips in to catch up pay to do so.

If theyre sesible players you can represent a big hand on the flop after the pre flop raise and make a medium pocket pair fold, conversly kq who loves his hand pre flop whatever the action will fold, if your behind they're more than happy to let you know!

No, not against 2 opponents early in an STT.

Chips are to precious to be playing poker with.
I'll save them for the cinch double ups, and the free chips pre-flop later on.

If I'm in a game where I'll need to get involved like this, I'm in the wrong game.



Anyway, it's an MTT so yeah, hell yeah, fire in a 1/2ish pot sized bet on that flop.

Thats where I'm at.

The previous answer was if for some reason I'd re-rizzumed pre-flop.

Dunno how you get that kinda lock read online when he's just made one singular betting action pre-flop, but if you do, and you reckon theres a good chance he'll fold to an overcard landing on the flop, then yeah, hell yeah, call and push him off a flop he won't like the look of.

Do you trust your read enough to fold on a 59T flop?

What about if you had AA?

your reasoning behind saying you wouldnt bet the flop after re raising pre flop makes me think that you havnt really embraced the idea that you've already re raised pre flop.

On that flop i play the hand like i had AA after its checked to me and ive re raised pre flop and if they can bt AK they'll be shipping there chips in screaming out the value of there hand with a check raise and i fold.

You have the equity of being able to represent a big pp after the pre flop action, which any half decent player will note and fold a meduim or small pocket pair.

If i get a flat call i'm giving the hand up, even if an ace or king drops because any strengh from my opponent there after will undoubtably be trips, A,10 or K,10

edit- lol just saw that you've edited and adressed the point raised in my first paragraph.

That sounds a lot like poker to me.

You need to embrace the idea that this is an STT we're talking about, we don't play that game.  :D

In the first one I bet out 300 on the flop Billiham flat called then checked to me Turn was a J I check behind praying for a queen it comes a 4 and I give the pot up after he bet out, most likely he had TT.

2nd hand I called with the intention of taking it off him if flop came favourable I thought I had a hude edge knowing what his hand was but no need the flop came 544 and I doubled up through his 99.

So would you have folded on a 59T flop?

Just trying to get my head round this. On the second hand

You called with odds of about 1.9:1 KNOWING you were a 4:1 dog (95% certain) and got lucky by flopping a monster.

sorry if am i missing something but it doesn't seem to have even any implied odds.

Any flop containing two overcards (AQ4, KJ7 etc) is his with a bet. Maybe even a solitary A will do.

Not planning on going to showdown, so the odds of whose hand will be best don't really matter.

In all honestly thetank I would probably say no because with both a 9t being on board I would have questioned my original judgement because the chances of him having those hole cards would have decreased on that flop.  Maybe in the world series I fold but not in a £20 mtt I would have to see.

Yep I understood that bit, but his play could also easily be with AA KK QQ JJ AK maybe even AQ.In which case we would normally be in a world of pain. I suppose i am asking (querying) that putting an opponent on only 2 hands ie 99 or TT is really possible unless you can actually see his cards.

On the first one, i think your preflop reraise makes the postflop and later streets play difficult because of the size of the pot relative to your stack. I would have preferred to flat call preflop and stick in a bet on the flop.