Still not sure about this hand lol, lots of people having some very different opinions, which is always pretty interesting.
Pre-Flop....
Everyone who has said 4bet/fold and has given a reason has made a lot of sense. Isolate HU (very awkward visibility 5way OOP) maybe even take it down PF a bit which is always a win (speahly given 3 dead calls in there) easy fold to the 5bet. All really good reasons.
Then the just calling camp, 5way pot with a super nutty hand, we're unlikely to make too many mistakes post-flop (will be lots of easy decisions) lower variance with my slightly damaged stack in level 1 of the worlds lonngggggest tournament - the risk of AK 5betting us, the risk of one of the 3 good players (2 of whom are VERY good) having flatted a premium hand, saves the horrible, means I don't have to start bluffing people off over-pairs which is pretty high V in this tourney.
I asked Middy and he said "I would 4bet/fold AKo and just flat AKs" - I think my thought process at the time was that I was just a bit conffused by the size of the squeeze, so took a cautious approach.
Flop...
chk/fold has been championed by a few people, I like it, can see it very possibly being the best line, but I'm just not 100% convinced.It's the main event, people can always be up to sillyness and don't think your average (admittedly this guy was playing well) main event player will be going off 3street bombing light in level 1 so i feel like we'll be getting a decent feel for him no the turn. Vs prolly just sick range/not closing the action/stack sizes and so on though folding defo has a lot going for it.
River...
lots of people have called for a bet/fold. Would really like to persue this a little further cos I personally think betting the river is really bad. I would love to be convinced otherwise though because in game I knew I'd LOVE to be able to bet because I know if he bets I'm in an absolute coffin (as was proven to be the case) my main problem with betting is just the simplest things, I have exactly the hand from a super strong range it looks like I have, can barely think of any hands I can bet for value against (he should never have AJ, and the guy in the middle should pretty much never have an ACE (hoffific if he does), any Qx beats me and I think it's still REALLY possible for me to be beaten (obv loving it when the turn checks through, but middle guy have very feasibly have
Xs and the 3better can DEFO have checked the turn back with AA and QQ. Also have a pretty nasty stack size (1.2x pot)
Results of the hand : I folded.
Don't know what to think about it either. Felt decent at the time then started to really feel like we had the same hand after some small amount of probing I did
Looking forward to seeing some replies!
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