think pre-flop is well played tbh. I Don't know the stack depths but assuming 100bb+ I think the default play should be the flat AK here, as soon as I have a hint of a dynamic where light 4bet's are possible I'd be starting to 3bet here.
Obviously 3betting a premium hand even OOP readless is always going to be fine I just prefer calling. Turn is close, fold would be ok IMO but can't hate on calling spesh as John's very likely to bet again on our pair cards.
Also - I dont think JB was being patronising to Sean at all, the OOP to a superior player comment was so obviously a joke, yes JB's a bit of a ego-monkey but he'd never say anything deliberately rude/be a prick (he's a nice chap!)
It's clearly a mistake of mine to not 'assume' that flatting AK there would actually an active part of Sean's game. I think at the time I just assumed that AK would be 3bt a very high % and that although I 'hoped' he would call me down with AK high (as he did) I was just surprised when I saw it like that.
The whole rhetoric after the hand was for the benefit of the 'table' and the banter involved clearly. I (for the record) do not see Sean as an inferior player and in fact this is the first time we've spent more than a few minutes at a table together.
It was a shame to (eventually) lose money in the game as I was winning a little for most of it, unfortunately I ran into TL900 on the day he finally decided to hit every single flop out of the park and to find every 'nut' card on each turn... and with him on his A-game and running well, it was sadly not to be.
(its a shame that people actually thought I was that much of a **** [insert your current favorite suitable word - extend the * if needbe] that this would have all been done in real malice or something - hopefully I am able to charm you all in person eventually..... [if you're a girl it helps me in the long run {context - better with girls, nothing 'naughty'}])
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