[converted_hand][hand_history]Full Tilt, $0.05/$0.10 No Limit Hold'em Cash, 6 Players
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Hero (BB): $10 (100 bb)
UTG: $29.69 (296.9 bb)
MP: $12.88 (128.8 bb)
CO: $21.82 (218.2 bb)
BTN: $10.23 (102.3 bb)
SB: $4.14 (41.4 bb)

Preflop: Hero is BB with K A
UTG raises to $0.30, MP calls $0.30, 3 folds, Hero raises to $1.50, UTG folds, MP raises to $5.70

Villain is 31/3 so I was repping a fairly strong range so is this an easy fold or because he seems to be fairly bad will he call an all in with worse?

Thanks

Sorry should have said MP was 31/3 UTG was 21/19 and 3bet 8.3

Flat pre, being OOP is more than made up for by your hand strength. If you raise, you're going to blow MP out of the pot and if UTG 4bets you're going to have to fold (his PFR is 3%...if he 4bets, he's almost always got KK or AA). If he flats, it's ok for us but his range is still strong and his VPIP means he'll be stationy postflop so you could have a hard time cbetting.

As played, it's a super easy fold to the 4bet.

Thanks Rich

3betting preflop is probably fine, nice to try and attempt MP who seems to be the fishier player. After that it becomes fairly close and I think both folding or shipping are fine. I probably end up shoving.

flatting pre should be pretty standard here.

You guys really think he should have flatted pre and play AK multiway? I would have def. 3bet (although to like $.90-1.20) and try to play the pot heads up. What is sample size for stats? As played I would fold to the 4bet.

Note: I always try to play at a table with a couple of <100bb'ers b/c 9/10 times they're fish, and a good amount of the time 100+bb'ers are regs.

I tend to avoid blanket statements like this. I very rarely 3bet utg opens but in this instance once the fish flats and we are unsuited I'm almost certainly trying to iso the fish rather than play multiway. So often the reg is gonna fold and the reg flat with a dominated range.

yeah i misread the HH, thought UTG was 31/3 in which case 3-betting AKo, especially that big, is spewy.

Misread it too. 3betting AK here is fine lol.

As much as backraises are ****ing weird, someone with a 3% PFR I'd still fold to.

lolwat, isolating the fish is super standard, his stats definitely indicate that hes gonna call with worse. As for the 4bet i think your image comes into play here, if u have been active and 3betting him a lot previously id shove, otherwise folding probably isnt that bad

i doubt the 31/3 guy is adjusting a whole lot, i just fold.

fish get annoyed by them crazy 3bettors too!

If the 31/3 opened UTG then I think flat calling AK is good, because we don't really want to go all in with AK against a guy that opens only 3%, especially when he opens UTG.

Given the aggressive regular opened UTG and the fish called in position, I think squeezing is good there, though. Most of the time the reg will fold, and the fish will call with whatever two crap cards he has. Many of his hands will be dominated Ax and Kx holdings. You just have to remember postflop though that he is a fish and calls with whatever, so when the flop comes T98 or whatever it's probably not wise to waste a cbet.

As played, I think it's a tough fold. If he was 31/13 instead of 31/3 I'd just stick the money in. We are risking like 8.50 to win 11.85, so we need a little more than 40% equity against his range.

If I plug AKo in pokerstove against a range of JJ-AA/AK, we have just a hair under 40% equity, making it a very close spot but probably a fold. When the equities are very close like that, it doesn't matter too much what you do.

If he can potentially be spazzing wider, than its an easy call. More likely though his range is going to be QQ+ and we're only going to have about 30% equity.

So, I'd probably sigh and mutter about how this damn site always tries to cooler me and then fold it.