100NL: AKs - 86BB call on big PF on pot

[jimmy44]

villain was 19/13/3 (50 hands).
He definitively does not have KK+. MP was a station but he would not call his stack with an average hand. Back to villain: even if villain has a PP, with the money in the pot, this should be a call. Comments?

Texas Hold'em $0.5-$1 NL (real money), hand
#P4-66972580-691
Table Gera, 5 May 2008 9:06 PM ET

Poker Room skin
No Limit Holdem Ring game
Blinds: $0.50/$1.00
5 players
Seat 2: MP ($123.95 in chips)
Seat 3: BU ($188.20 in chips)
Seat 5: Hero [ KD,AD ] ($99.00 in chips)
Seat 8: BB ($38.30 in chips)
Seat 9: UTG ($98.50 in chips)
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Pre-flop: (5 players) Hero is SB with K A
UTG raises to $3.5, MP calls, BU calls, Hero raises to $20, 2 folds, MP calls, BU raises to $187.95, Hero ???

[Alexos]

insta-call, he's usually just stealing the pot with A6s or 77

[minSim]

jup

[meeloche]

If this isn't your first 3 bet then this is definitely a snap call.

[bode]

fist pump

[c-luvin]

you got 1/5 of your stack in the pot with AKs, and he "definately doesnt have KK+"
call

[Deanglow]

He definitively does not have KK+

Put that in pokerstove and you will realize how easy this hand is.

[Juked07]

Are we supposing he doesn't have KK+ because he flatted the open? I thought a lot of bad players did this with monsters..

[jimmy44]

Are we supposing he doesn't have KK+ because he flatted the open? I thought a lot of bad players did this with monsters..

Not after UTG raiser + 1 caller.

[Galapogos]

Jimmy, if he definitely doesn't have KK+ then you're obviously at worst flipping with a PP or dominating an unpaired hand. So with the money already in the pot, you have to get it in.

Edit: that and the fact that you have AK and it's a monster preflop.

Look at how you hold up against this super tight range that even has AA and KK in it:

Text results appended to pokerstove.txt

657,524,736 games 0.005 secs 131,504,947,200 games/sec

Board:
Dead:

equity win tie pots won pots tied
Hand 0: 52.693% 51.37% 01.33% 337744356 8724096.00 { AKs, AKo }
Hand 1: 47.307% 45.98% 01.33% 302332188 8724096.00 { QQ+, AQs, AQo }

Throw in a couple lesser hands or a random bluff and your edge gets quite big.