Hey guys, wanted to know if I played this hand correctly, sorry if it is a basic question.

I usually just flat AK vs UTG if i dont know if he is a bad player.

On this relatively dry flop I expect villian to c-bet almost his entire range, (against which I have good equity), and continue with his valuehands on the turn and give up with his highcardhands and pairs like 77 and below, or strong hands that he is timit to valuebet (at these Stakes I see people often check back TT,JJ)

I decided to bet the turn, even if I have showdownvalue, I make him fold his equityshare abd he cant bluff me of my hand on the river when I check the turn, also better lowpairhands will fold.

On the river i am not sure what the best sizing is, but a bet seems appropriate since I dont think there are any strong hands in his range left.

Thanks for feedback.

clear 3bet preflop, by calling you are giving blinds great pot odds to call, you should have decent fold equity by squeezing and more generally, what would be your squeezing range if you call AKs in this case?

The flop is not as dry as you say, UTG's range could be much stronger than you think 3way as a cbet will not yield much fold equity, but he will have bluffs in his range too.

Pre I prefer 3b

rest is pretty meh. I'd likely check behind turn, but people do have poor checking ranges so it's likely still ok

If you are in SB or BB then you can justify flatting AKo pre vs a tight UTG open. However, when you are in position vs an unknown UTG open AND theres a CO player involved as well we should be super happy about squeezing. Assuming that you are ever squeezing here, you will become easy to play against if people discover you don't squeeze AK vs UTG.


As for postflop I think that we can gladly check back turn instead of turning our hand into a bluff. Villain should have loads of x/c's OTT unless his cbet% is really high. Villain should have much more 8x than he does 55 and worse and generally at micros you don't have people aggressively cbetting multiway. Also, the only good cards for you to fire at OTR are J+ so you have few bluffing outs. OTT villain would usually either fire a double and then possibly a triple barrel or instead give up and almost never lead river as a bluff. Rivers he would lead as a bluff might include A or K rivers which are fine for you. OTT we should gladly be checking down as we don't expect villain to lead river as a bluff often and we have great showdown value vs his range. For the most part turning SDV hands like this into bluffs is very spewy at micros since you will frequently just get called down by 8x or worse here by fish that are just total droolers.

Squeeeeze

x back turn and hope for showdown, you have weaker hands to bluff

Preflop frustrates me... AK is an auto squeeze hand regardless of everything unless there is a dude squeezing 25/25.

AP xb turn to realise your equity

Thanks a lot for the helpful responses. Without a sqeeze scenario, do you still disagree with flatting AK vs unknown? If so, why exactly?

And how do your sqeezing-ranges look roughly in this spot? I am realising that i rarely sqeeze vs UTG so that might be a leak. Thanks for any feedback.

Pre 3-bet much beter

Flatting flop is really meh, it's not making a huge amount but I think it's good to incorporate it into your flatting range so you aren't dead on A/K turns.

Turn is a pretty clear xb to realise your 12% equity/SDV