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Originally Posted by TopGun in VA
With a top-five stack, I didn't want to risk my stack vs the only player at the table who could take me out.
Understand and agree in a more relevant ICM scenario. Here we aren’t in the money or on the direct bubble. I’m also assuming this is a relatively fast structure so sitting around playing passively with a premium hand in this spot isn’t a great strategy. For example, you have 40-50bbs to start, let’s say you lose this hand, go thru the blinds once or twice, maybe lose another small pot. The blinds go up, now you have 20bbs. It happens very quickly in these structures. You gotta pick up chips constantly and be willing to die in order to build/maintain a top chip stack.
Sorry but I just can’t get behind flatting AKs here at all. As played now I call the cbet and go from there (and kick myself for not 3betting). We can still have the best hand and/or improve to it and win at showdown.
Last thing I’ll add is that 3betting isn’t “risking your stack”. That’s very MUBSy thinking. We’re 3betting for value! We want to be called and take a flop in position. That’s a great outcome.