Thanks everyone for the nice words .... appreciated.

AK

As discussed in my original post, AK is a problem starting hand for me. My modus operandi preflop is to open with AK in all positions (ldo) and to 3bet if someone has opened the pot.

I reviewed my database looking at every single AK starting hands. I found the following:

- No significant differences in results between suited and semi-suited AK: both are currently not profitable.
- I have a few "WTH was I thinking hands". If I eliminate these hands, I would be slightly profitable with AK (still crappy result). While it is disappointing to find these badly played hands, I know that they are fewer and far between these days. Most of these hands were early in my database. No big conclusion here other than I need to play my "A" game.
- Losing hands: Prior to the review, I was expecting to find all kinds of spew in these hands but really, I am quite happy wtih how I played them on average. The only thing that I found was related to Cbetting. Improving my Cbetting is one of my other goals. Since I 3bet AK, if I mess up my Cbetting, it is for a larger absolute amount of $ and thus, it hurts more. But this is not a AK specific issue but a Cbetting issue.
- Winning hands. Here, I found spew ... in the form of not getting enough value from my hands. 2 categories of spew:

- If flop goes Kxx, so I have TPTK. I tend to only get 2 streets of value from those. For some reasons, I do not bet on the river. Why? The good thing is that the remedy is obvious. Bet/Bet/Bet.
- If flop goes Axx, once again I have TPTK. Unless the villain also has an A, the Ace on the flop tends to kill the action. I usually bet the flop in this situation. I will now try to check the flop (if not scary from a draw perspective) and hope the villain catches something on the Turn and hopefully get more value from this.


This is probably very obvious to all of you ...

Anyway, like always comments, advice, and free money are always welcome.

Cheers,

P