PokerStars - $0.25 Ante $0.03 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 100.76 BB
SB: 172.88 BB
BB: 140.04 BB
UTG: 115.84 BB
Hero (MP): 100 BB
CO: 100 BB

6 players post ante of 0.12 BB, SB posts SB 0.4 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 2.12 BB) Hero has K A

UTG raises to 2.52 BB, Hero raises to 8 BB, CO raises to 28.64 BB, fold, fold, fold, fold, Hero calls 20.64 BB

Flop: (61.92 BB, 2 players) K A 2
Hero checks, CO checks

Turn: (61.92 BB, 2 players) 3
Hero bets 14.8 BB, CO calls 14.8 BB

River: (91.52 BB, 2 players) Q

I don’t feel comfortable having a flatting range vs. a 4bet OOP. I just sigh GII pre

isnt a proper cold 4betting range really strong Like QQ+ and AKs ? Assuming thats true your fold equity is probably pretty low. With that said i cant see folding and calling seems wrong as well. I think this is a spot where all 3 option are bad but shoving is the least bad because it at least guarantees you will realize your equity.

Sums it up nicely.

Plus the only thing stronger than a cold 4-bet, is a 5-bet shove over that cold 4-bet.

Shove pre.
AP whatever, hope for a chop or the rare AQs, but don't tell me you x/f river.

Thx guys. I feel like I'm losing my mind. I'm down 6 buyins over 33 instances of all-in with AK. That's -1800bb/100! They literally only have QQ+,AK when they call, otherwise they fold. And when they shove it's almost as strong a range with the occasional mid PP's or JTs mixed in. And I'm not running well vs those.

I was starting to wonder if I should just be folding AKo to preflop 4-bets, maybe flat if I have position. It's really disheartening, because I used to be so confident playing AK before. But now I'm full of doubt if I should even 3-bet AK and open myself up to the pain.

I check/called a 40% bet on the river. Villain had KK. Not sure why he didn't jam.

AKs is a pretty hand.

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I think unless the CO is very aggressive PF, I'd likely fold AKs to the cold 4bet as this move is generally only premiums vs the UTG RFI & MP 3b.

Ya if there’s ever a time to dump AKs preflop, it’s facing a 3.5x cold 4 bet from someone whom you can reasonably expect has a nitty range.


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don't call a 4bet that size

if you have reads, go with that to fold or jam imo

without reads, always jam?

Eh, I don't know. Jamming without reads can't be terrible. At my stake I think most regs are pretty strong here, especially the sizing. Imo, 4bet bluffs are usually 20-25bb. Once you get into 26bb+ 4bets, you should be jamming or folding. calling 28bb to fold on a flop without an A/K is awful imo.

I sometimes fold these spots with AKo because I think my WR in my pool is solid and I don't need the variance of flips.