Playing £1/£2 live 8 handed. Minimum buy in £50 Maximum £400. I bought in for £100. After 2 hours spun it up to £310.

HJ limps in £2, i R in CO with AKsh to £10, Villain on Btn ReR to £20 (he's the only solid reg at the table and only player who has me covered). HJ calls I call. F AK7h rb. HJ check, i check V bets £35, HJ calls I R to £150 V calls, HJ folds. T is a 2h gives me a flush draw. I shove remaining £140 in V calls he shows KK. River bricks, he takes huge pot. I go home.

Welcome to the forum. We do suggest that you don't put the results in your original post since it biases the answers you get. You may also want to look at the threads stuck to the top of the forum which gives other tips on how to create a post that is easy to read.

If you are asking what you did wrong, the biggest thing is after 2 hours you have no reads on the villain. Without reads, you don't know if your call pf was good or not. Even generically, what kind of range does the villain have to 3 bet pf? How does that compare to AK? On the flop, how often are you ahead against that range?

Once you do this, you'll begin to see that while top two pair is a good hand in abstract, the reality is that against many villains who are going to stack off, it is a pretty weak hand in relative terms.

Good luck.

Forgot that akx flop hit min raisers 3bet pre range harder than yours

What did you do wrong?

1) Ran into the top of his range
2) Got coolered

You say you have AK off ... and flop has 1 heart ... and turn gives you a flush draw?

Which part of this equation is wrong?

After I went back and read his post again I was thinking the same thing. But I'm pretty sure that he meant AKs then the h after was for hearts. Could be wrong

Interesting.

Are you suggesting we should be playing range v. range at 1/2? Why?

Are you reading something special into his near minraise pre (i.e. something other than just a sizing mistake)? Why?

Long story short - min raisers are bad players, bad players have very narrow 3bet ranges, akx = bad time for you

You can 4b/fold prelfop and get away pretty cheap.

I also don't see the point in x/r this dry flop. You are letting hands like AQ get away and surely folding out the HJ (or finding out he's got 77).