So you've played well over a million hands and still don't think AK is a good hand? And you folded KK preflop for 50BB (and bragged about it)? I really don't understand at all. No disrespect, but seriously, almost every post you've made in this thread betrays a misunderstanding of the fundamentals.
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Obv, if opponent have a real hand AK is a dog (or facing another AK). If opponent have a very strong hand, AK might be crushed and you can be drawing to a few percent. What is the chance that opponent making a play which pretty much commit him with an inferior hand ? Without any read, the chance in this spot is very slim. Without any specific read, opponent have high PP or AK. There are no reason to shove in a spot where you can get out cheaply.
But look, even if you really believe he's never bluffing here, we have good equity against his range:
Board:
Dead:
equity win tie pots won pots tied
Hand 0: 38.824% 18.14% 20.68% 78295380 89232168.00 { AKo }
Hand 1: 61.176% 40.50% 20.68% 174740892 89232168.00 { QQ+, AKs, AKo }
Add in a few bluff combos and we're +EV getting it in against him. Plus, since opp is a reg, we can make a slight EV mistake against him in this hand to set him up for later. As in, we want him to confidently take Jacks to the felt against us ("Oh I bet he's overplaying AK again") because in that case our range crushes him. When you have AK at a 9 handed table, there's only about a 1 in 30 chance of being dominated preflop. For this reason, you can play AK really hard before the flop and expect to win fairly often.
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In this hand I am 100BB deep. One limper in MP, dominant LP player raised about 5BB. I had AK in BB, and just called before flop. MP called aswell. King high flop. I c/r the aggro player and won the pot.
"Winning the pot" isn't a good thing here though. You want to make more value off the many inferior hands he could have. Taking it down here is prob missing value.
I'm not trying to pick on you, but I'm thinking that even though you're winning, you can be an even bigger winner by playing these hands more aggressively and worrying less about going broke. Especially if you're playing short stack, there's hardly any reason to ever fold AK.