hi I was wondering if I could get a critique of how I played AKdd in a tourney here. I probably made a hash of it but would prefer a little bit of help on my decision making as I think these types of moves are a huge leak in my game.

not a great read on the V seems to be playing fairly tight aggressive

Hero in cut off with 102bb

V in LJ with about 52bb

Hero in cutoff with AKdd.

folds to V in LJ who raises to 3bb.

HJ calls

folds to H who raises to 12BB

fold to V who calls. HJ calls.

Flop is

Kh Js 3h

V goes all in. HJ folds.

hero calls.

I'll leave out the outcome unless it's required. It's my first time pasting a hand history so if there's any issues with how I've outlined this please let me know.

I am assuming that you are in the early stages of the tournament? based on bet and stack sizes.

Anyway you made a squeeze play for about a pot sized bet preflop. 9bb or 10bb would probably garner the same outcome as a 12bb bet does, but either way you will claim the pot with that bet as often as not. I don't see a big problem with your play preflop.

This time both Villains call, which bloats the pot. V1 has a pot-sized stack remaining and he donk-bets all in on the flop, creating a pot of around 80 bb. V2 folds and you are asked the question: Do you want to call off 40bb from your remaining 90bb stack, while holding top pair top kicker, against an unknown (but seems to be TAG) opponent?

You are getting 2-to-1 on the bet. You have a workable stack of about 50bb if you lose. I would call.

this makes sense thanks. I think I've just been really uncertain on my AK plays recently as they haven't been working out as often as I like. I figured it was a sigh call when he shoved but was wondering if I should have been more considered in my approach. I think thinking I blocked most Kx and AA made me feel good here on how to proceed.

You have a nice hand to call with imo. Unblock the all the heart combo draws and you steal one of his straight outs when he has QT.

you lose to AA, KK, KJ, JJ, 33…and 33 is probably folding to your 3b given the size. AA and KK obv 4b a lot and you block them. He has 3 combos of QTs that you’re 2.5 to 1 favorite against. You’re flipping against QThh and 9Thh. You’re also flipping against JQhh and JThh but kinda don’t think those hands donk jam as often as the QT combos and T9hh. You’re also slight fave vs AThh, AJhh, and AQhh. He could also have some other random naked Ah flush draws or some one pair Kh flush draws.

I like folding if you ever have the Qh and maybe even any Q. AKdd is a nice call given all the combo draws out there and the flat pre. Obv sad when he shows up with KJ here a fair amount.

Why would he donk shove with anything ahead of your hand? This should be a draw a lot.

I think you have to call given how the hand went down. Sorry you lost.

Perfect sizing pre-flop. The only hands I think we are trailing are KJs and JJ. Villain could have KJo but personally I would fold most of those. If villain had AA/KK he would auto 4-bet because of the HJ in the hand. The only issue is its a "LOW" tournament so Villain could just be bad and call with AA/KK. It happened to me in a $550 tourney at the Borgota which wasn't even "LOW"...

Given how many flush draws are out there I would call.

Like Deuceblocker said it should be mostly a draw of some kind. Given you 3 bet and the flop has KJ it favors your range a lot more than the other two guys so even if you have AQs or QQ I would think you would cbet and Villain would then be able to c/r all in and feel good about it. But even if you checked he could jam the turn.