Limping AK

[Warpe]

I decided to experiment with AK a bit just to see if I could gather more chips with it, instead of taking a standard pre-flop raise line. Goal: make it harder for opps to put me on a hand. Here's a couple, a few minutes apart... (I was a luckbox on the second):

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t20 (9 handed) FTR converter on zerodivide.cx

MP1 (t1500)
MP2 (t1490)
MP3 (t1550)
Warpe (t1460)
Button (t1450)
SB (t1480)
BB (t1470)
UTG (t1580)
UTG+1 (t1520)

Preflop: Warpe is CO with A, K.
5 folds, Warpe calls t20, 2 folds, BB raises to t40, Warpe calls t20.

Flop: (t90) J, J, 8 (2 players)
BB bets t100, Warpe raises to t200, BB calls t100.

Turn: (t490) A (2 players)
BB bets t400, Warpe raises to t1220, BB folds (after tanking for very long time)

Final Pot: t2110

Results in white below:
No showdown. Warpe wins t2110.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t20 (9 handed) FTR converter on zerodivide.cx

BB (t1480)
UTG (t1490)
UTG+1 (t1550)
Warpe (t2110)
MP2 (t1450)
MP3 (t1270)
CO (t1140)
Button (t1510)
SB (t1500)

Preflop: Warpe is MP1 with A, K.
2 folds, Warpe calls t20, 1 fold, MP3 raises to t80, 2 folds, SB raises to t140, 1 fold, Warpe calls t120, MP3 raises to t1270, SB raises to t1500, Warpe calls t1360.

Flop: (t4290) 7, A, A (3 players)

Turn: (t4290) 4 (3 players)

River: (t4290) A (3 players)

Final Pot: t4290

Results in white below:
SB has Jh Jd (full house, aces full of jacks).
Warpe has Ah Ks (four of a kind, aces).
MP3 has Tc Ts (full house, aces full of tens).
Outcome: Warpe wins t4290.

[Aplomado]

Don't you want to get information from your opponents?

[Warpe]

Don't you want to get information from your opponents?

It's strictly an experiment in letting them define their hands in advance without paying them up-front for the info (and letting them put chips into the pot that might not otherwise go there if I'd raised). I'm going to play around with it and add to this thread as I collect more hands.

Call me crazy...

[Warpe]

Same tourney...(can hardly call this limping, however)

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t150 (6 handed) FTR converter on zerodivide.cx

Button (t1995)
Warpe (t6270)
BB (t5625)
UTG (t3060)
MP (t3430)
CO (t6620)

Preflop: Warpe is SB with A, K.
1 fold, MP raises to t450, 1 fold, Button raises to t1995, Warpe raises to t3540, 1 fold, MP folds.

Flop: (t6135) 5, Q, 2 (2 players)

Turn: (t6135) A (2 players)

River: (t6135) Q (2 players)

Final Pot: t6135

Results in white below:
Button has 9h 9d (two pair, queens and nines).
Warpe has Ad Kd (two pair, aces and queens).
Outcome: Warpe wins t6135.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t150 (5 handed) FTR converter on zerodivide.cx

Warpe (t8865)
UTG (t5175)
MP (t3810)
Button (t2680)
SB (t6470)

Preflop: Warpe is BB with K, A.
UTG raises to t600, 1 fold, Button raises to t2680, 1 fold, Warpe raises to t8865, UTG folds.

Flop: (t12220) 2, 8, K (2 players)

Turn: (t12220) 8 (2 players)

River: (t12220) 3 (2 players)

Final Pot: t12220

Results in white below:
Warpe has Kh As (two pair, kings and eights).
Button has 6c 6d (two pair, eights and sixes).
Outcome: Warpe wins t12220.

[Warpe]

And the finale...

PokerStars Tournament #18509025, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $10.00/$1.00
18 players
Total Prize Pool: $180.00
Tournament started - 2006/01/23 - 00:33:20 (ET)

Dear Warpe,

You finished the tournament in 1st place.
A $72.00 award has been credited to your Real Money account.


Congratulations!
Thank you for participating.

I'm convinced that the extra chips that went into the pot on the first two limped hands gave me the chip advantage I needed to lean on small stacks later in the tourney...and my fold equity on a re-raise was unbelievable. There was a lot of tanking going on.

[vqc]

the way u limp AK and then proceed to play it afterwards is far different from the way i limp and play AK postflop.

yes the stacks are different (and that makes a huge differnece) but at a PP SNG i dont contest hand 1 as hard as u do.

[WildBobAA]

First hand I hate how you played it and it looked like the deck hit you in the face after that, especially hand 2. You were lucky to win those races in hands 3 and 4.

[Warpe]

First hand I hate how you played it and it looked like the deck hit you in the face after that, especially hand 2. You were lucky to win those races in hands 3 and 4.

Objective on the first hand was to see if he had a J, to rep that I had one, then when the ace came on the turn rep a fh. I limped pre-flop...AJ would do that. If he'd reraised/pushed on the flop I would've folded, but he didn't.

Races are always a matter of luck to a large extent...point is, I could AFFORD to race. I'm a pretty good shortstack player so if I got beat, I'm still in the game.

[pgil]

as for gaining information, you will usually get a better idea of what someone is holding if you let them take the lead, at least at the level of the 11's.