Pushing A-K preflop.

Opponent is playing extremely aggressively preflop. For example, a few hands ago I brought it in for $8 with A-Q in the small blind when it was folded to me, he reraised to $24, I reraised to $66, he went all-in, I folded and he showed K-8 suited.

Thoughts on this play?

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $2 BB (5 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: FlopTurnRiver)

saw flop|saw showdown

Hero ($231.10)
Button ($462.40)
SB ($236.60)
BB ($65.40)
UTG ($278.60)

Preflop: Hero is MP with K, A.
1 fold, Hero raises to $8, Button raises to $24, 2 folds, Hero raises to $231.1

Is he going to call that with worse hands often enough?

How is this better than re-raising to $66 and calling a push?

I like Fnord's idea

Expensive telegram. Just hope he doesn't wake up with a hand.

yea, why not raise to 66 again?

Originally Posted by Warpe

Expensive telegram. Just hope he doesn't wake up with a hand.

That was the main idea. That if he was going to try to take away the lead from me preflop, I was willing to punish him.

Maybe raising less than all-in is good, but I think there is a reasonable chance he will call when I have a 50% chance of doubling up.

Don't ever 4bet AK with 100bb stacks and fold to a push in 6 max. Seriously it's really bad against anybody who isn't really nitty. I frequently will 4 bet AK against most players, and against some I drop it to a standard 3 bet. Very read dependant obviously.

In this hand you need to reraise an amount where he still thinks he has folding equity and can push with a wider range than he is calling a shove with. But yeah, I'm getting all in here for sure, I just don't like the overbet shove all in against a bluffing donkey.

Originally Posted by aislephive

Don't ever 4bet AK with 100bb stacks and fold to a push in 6 max.

I had A-Q offsuit when I folded to the push. You think I should've called his 5-bet all-in?

depends on how much you reraise by, then its a pot odds thing

as far as the AK thing, there are alot of things you can do with it, just make sure to please shania in the process

Originally Posted by dsaxton

Originally Posted by aislephive

Don't ever 4bet AK with 100bb stacks and fold to a push in 6 max.

I had A-Q offsuit when I folded to the push. You think I should've called his 5-bet all-in?

Whoops, thought you had AK for some reason.