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Originally Posted by Playbig2000
I'm not flatting pre OOP, 4bet/fold. If he 5bets, he's got it (not AK).
This is a very hard lesson to learn and has issues of its own. In particular, if the villain flats the 4-bet, which a lot of people will do with 100% of their range. In essence, you're making a high variance play in a bloated pot OOP. It takes time for people to learn to deal with this successfully.
As it so happens, I agree with you most of the time, though not all the time. It's situational and judgment dependant that comes with experience. For me, the biggest situational factor is effective stack sizes. The deeper the stacks, the more likely I would 4-bet ... and yes $500 effective is deep enough. In the situation described and against this villain, I'm not really sure.
My point is that 4-betting AK OOP successfully requires some skills that the OP does not necessarily have and therefore flatting the 3-bet preflop, OOP is an acceptable play.