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Originally Posted by fisheater11
Think about this admiral. You have as strong of a hand as ak with 20 BB. You make it 350 pf, 500 flop, and fold to his shove. Now you just burned off 850 chips and are down to 1150 after somehow accomplishing a no showdown lost pot with ak.
I personally like a shove preflop the best option by far.
If you dont want to shove, make it a size where shoving the flop looks a bit more natural (~450).
Having got to the flop all options but shoving are bad (LOL ESP CHECKING BACK WHAT TERRIBAD ADVICE) good instincts.
I do find your tone quite patronising.
I disagree that shoving 20BB is good pre flop. AK is a solid hand. We're making a standard value raise (I prefer it a little bigger but W/E), there is no reason to shove. This villian will likely call a raise with A9+,AXs, KQ, KJ, KTs which we have crushed but won't call the shove.
Why is checking behind IP so bad? I personally like to play this way vs most opponents on most flops. Here villain seems uber loose so I prefer the check.
The C-bet would not be a bad idea either (but probably not vs this villain), the Q high flop may well have missed him and/or be an overcard to his pair, equally he may just call and check the turn to you based on your agression.
I think this is the standard AK connundrum and you have options of how to play it.