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NL200 "Tough" Spot with AK NL200 "Tough" Spot with AK

11-14-2015 , 09:57 PM
So i played this hand like a huge fish. I have already discussed it with other players. I just wanted to take as many opinions as possible. So i have AK UTG+1 on 8handed live table with approximately 200 stack and a somewhat okish player who has shown solid hands and some bluffs as well raises UTG to 10 pounds. Here, i just flat because im bad player. BB calls as well who is a calling station. Flop is K95 with two spades. UTG players bets 25, I call,fish calls. Turn is brick, utg player double barrels to 50 , I still again call (mistake), fish calls. River is Q, so board is K952Q with no flush. I have 100 behind, pot is 250 and UTG players bets 120 and i fold Fish snap calls and UTG player shows Q10 of spades for a pair and missed flush draw and gutshot. FIsh shows KJ and im a bit tilted ofc. What is the correct play there? Thank you.
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11-15-2015 , 03:33 AM
Calling preflop is totally fine against an UTG raiser, as is calling flop and turn. If I only had 100 behind on the turn in a hu pot I would jam, but you want the BB to stay in the pot. The only truly bad play is folding river. If villain literally never bluffs river it is a fold, so this isn't a super easy spot, but he has shown he can bluff and you need to be right very infrequently for a call to be profitable. I think well over half the time you are beat on the river by UTG so this is really a pot odds call.
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11-15-2015 , 04:01 AM
Results may skew advice but call pre is fine and calling down is fine, you are committed and should call river.
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11-15-2015 , 05:23 PM
Thank you. I just played scared money I guess.
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11-15-2015 , 07:30 PM
3bet pre to get this heads up, with position. If it folded around to you on the button then I would be ok with calling, but you have 6 people to act behind you. A raise to 10 is lol small, so I'm surprised this didn't get 4 or 5 callers after you're flat call. Seeing a flop with 4+ with AKo is a disaster. Even having one caller behind you makes the hand tougher since you do not position throughout the hand.

Another reason why 3betting pre is better is it defines your opponents hand range much better. He's pretty much only calling with 88+ and AK, KQ, maybe KJ and QJ suited.

As played, I would have played the hand exactly the same way you would have played it. The queen is a bad river card and makes 2pair a lot here. You are behind most of the time here after a bet of 125, plus you still have to worry about the opponent behind you, (which is another reason for 3betting pre, to give you position in the hand)
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