Def iso-ing t7 this deep with fish utg. If others come along it's fine, fish adds enough value. It's a race to stack him, limping 7way is not gona allow this very much. As to hand u can maybe thunk of hero folding if the sb and mp were reversed, as played ur kt is way under repped, so u set the pot up for him to bluff/value own himself and then question it when it materialises. The sb tinebank fold helps u, aa and at are now super tough to have. Like said he can value worse and IMO has a bluff range so snap, pay, punch a wall - or at least that's my routine

Seems a bad hand to ask for a percent for each play. 100% jam under these circumstances. And although when u analyse the hand c/c<cf, I can think of times when I would be tempted by a c/c (probs still jam tho) but never a c/f. It's just 2 weak, and pretty unbalanced. I would also be snap jamming kq in same spot 2

not even close. call. over-analyse a standard spot afterwards. pls dont go all 2+2 on me blonde, some hands are just not meant to be

and why i hate forums

can of worms officially opened

isnt that just my name?

But you talked about 3betting. Would you not even 3bet AK? Not saying get it in, but to one raise, would you not re(back)raise?

played more aggressive in dec n jan and  found that i was walking out the door having ran AK into a better hand or lost a race. went back to knitting in feb and got 3rd in dtd deepstack. certain styles work for certain players. what you need to do is find your best game and play it. no one plays your game better than you. poker is very much results driven and final tables never are contested by 9 nits or 9 super aggros imo.

There ought to be a minimum level of competence for posting advice in PHA. However you look at this type of post it is short of that level. Add to it the 22 is better than AK heads-up and surely it´s time to take a break from posting flawed thinking and even more flawed cliches itt. Use the thread as the learning facility it is meant to be, especially with people like geeforce posting at the moment the opportunity to learn is huge.

are you really telling me that you dount know that heads up AK is not beating 22. Although its a flip the 22 wins the contest 52% of the time. My whole point about not  being a fan of races is this. Why when i am the better poker player would i be willing to chuck all my money in on a race when i could have saved a lot of time and just backed red or black. Obv there are times when races become un avoidable and you need to win these to go deep. But if i'm controling the pots and the game then why rely on pre flop luck. The tournies i play are 2 day minmum and mostly 3 or 4 days all in the £300 to £1500 price range and my cash ratio is about 35% over an 18 month period. (was a lot higher prior to dec jan). If i were to willing to chuck it in with AK racing then i'm sure i would not even cash 10% of the time. (i consider a 10% cash ratio aveerage as this is the usual amount paid out in the money) . There is an arguement that if you hold AK and play a flop you dont get paid by QQ when an ace or king hits. This is bollox coz in these games 90% of the players are idiots and cant fold so pay you any way. Same holding QQ v villans AK...no AK on the board and as sure as eggs are eggs idiots are still gonna put all their money in with AK coz its massive innit.Its common sense that mathematically if you race just twice then you are gonna lose one. This thinking of valuing AK as just ace high pre flop works well for satellites even better. I give advice and mentoring to a few people who are all winners in the game. 1 guy has played every single game £300 and above at dtd since last january (19 tournies in total) and has won a seat to 18 of them at 1st or 2nd attempt and never spent more than$90 on any seat. I am not aware of who kukuskin is in the real world but would be suprised to find out if he actually played poker for a living

 if you're never getting ak pf as a FAV dominating hands then you are not 3betting enough. if your are 3betting lots, then 3bet some more, b/c if you cant 3bet to 5bet jam profitably (i assure you in general terms this is more profitable 100bb deep) then you are not putting enough pressure on ppl pf. i am not saying you have to 3bet ak everytime, sometimes i flat and wait for a squeeze behind etc but 98% of the time i am looking to play for stacks.

you obv have your own style, which is fine, but to group ppl that get in ak pf as ppl that just rely of pf luck is more down to the limitations in ur style (sry not trying to attack you here). it works for you right now in soft games (and lowers your variance), but how do you think it would fair if people werent eggy idiots?

completely agree u know this guy vvv well, but say the hand u mentioned with TT vs JJ. he goes for his standard bet bet line, doesnt slow down. he ends up bet folding for a fairly small amount even tho he has sd val. with that hand in mind he might not want to get in same spot again. from what u have said my range for him is def changing, but not so much still that he 100% bets aa/kk. feel like we not going to agree here so nvmd

we have to be 100% certain the old guyc alls though right

nope

jam, high 5 seat 1, punch him when ur drawing dead

never slows down in 600bb pots? i just cant live with this assumption. u obv know villain better than me, but how well do u know him 600bb deep in a 4bet pot Vs u ( i assume he puts u on a range in this spot, and is not just level 1?). i doubt u have seen close to the number of spots (and see his hole cards) to make the assumption he NEVER slows down on turn, and even if u have he isnt a robot

[Yes he 100% bets]

to be in-exploitable b/c is best, but i doubt in a 100nl game ppl are going to exploit a bf by jamming all air and turning aa and kk into bluffs to get hero off a probable set. also to say he never has aa or kk after checking flop means u think he never pot controls 1 pair VS a possible flopped set 650bb deep (not analysing how good/bad this is). hands we should be able to take out of his range are JJ and TT.

as played bf is fine and def > checking. check calling allows him to check aa kk, and value bet you for same amount u were betting anyway.

Yes he 100% bets 1010/JJ/KK/AA big on the turn and I was going to c/f the turn. WHen he checks turn I thought he massively has bluffs/AK in his range.

ur quoting me here, agreeing with what i said (i think), but then contradicting it. i am saying i think aa and kk are most def in his range (although i am sure by the way this post has developed he didnt have either)

to be in-exploitable b/c is best, but i doubt in a 100nl game ppl are going to exploit a bf by jamming all air and turning aa and kk into bluffs to get hero off a probable set. also to say he never has aa or kk after checking flop means u think he never pot controls 1 pair VS a possible flopped set 650bb deep (not analysing how good/bad this is). hands we should be able to take out of his range are JJ and TT.

as played bf is fine and def > checking. check calling allows him to check aa kk, and value bet you for same amount u were betting anyway.

i dont hate this at all. 50bb stack in hand. suited good king. not ideal obv, but just snap saying its bad, imo, is out of date. taking thinner spots against table marks i think is essential now, its often a race between regs to stack these guys. reverse implied odds has been said, but u have a hand which dominates villains hands in terms of diamond draws, 8's and also K's if the 50bb is playing 60%+. vs 2regs it probs wouldnt be ok (i am assuming that villain isnt a reg)

completely standard with your stack an shoving is terrible pre flop imo

explain why a shove is terrible pls

i think i like a shove more than a cold 4 in this spot. even if i do have air in my range with a 70bb cold 4 most ppl dont (mtt is different). if villain has TT JJ even ak i think this cold 4 will often look so huge that these hands find a fold, even more so with villain 2 behind left to act. jamming keeps these hands in more often. i like a cold 4 if u have a history of it this deep or ur 100bb deep.

thats just 1 of like 10 i seen where some1 is just basically posting a cooler and back tracking trying to get away from it. ppl need 2 learn some hands are just not meant to be