AKs on the button

[MortenTA]

what would you do?

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t100 (8 handed) FTR converter on zerodivide.cx

MP1 (t580)
MP2 (t2695)
CO (t2170)
Hero (t1375)
SB (t1790)
BB (t1895)
UTG (t1995)
UTG+1 (t1000)

Preflop: Hero is Button with A, K.
UTG calls t100, 1 fold, MP1 calls t100, 2 folds, Hero raises to t450, 2 folds, UTG calls t350, MP1 calls t350.

Flop: (t1500) 6, 6, 9 (3 players)
UTG checks, MP1 checks, Hero ???

[konahead]

I can't see a big pp limping then just calling that bet, and no pp less than TT should have stayed in preflop.

Pot's 1500 and you only have 925 left, so you can't really cont bet without being committed.... damn tough spot. if you check, they'll all know you don't have a big pair.

I'd have to bet 600 and hope no one calls. MP1 is all-in anyway. (I'd say push, but I think a 3/4 stack bet would be scarier to opps. At that point, all your chips are going in on the turn anyway...)

edit - MP1 limped 100 then put in almost his entire stack to call, so he may in fact have a big pp looking for action - but at this point it doesn't really matter cuz he's pretty much all-in from the preflop raise anyway. An alternative would be to see if UTG wants to just check it down, by checking the flop.....

[Blinky]

Tough spot. With only 13BB this should be a preflop push as you don't have enough chips to play a flop.

Since you've been called and wiffed the flop ... sheesh. Doubt that you can cbet these guys off their hands, and if you cbet you're pushing. I take the free card and check/fold if the turn doesn't help me.

[Fortune 500]

Very tough spot. I don't like C-betting a missed flop into two opponents very often, and I certainly don't like it when my opponents are more or less pot committed (and I certainly am).

I think I check and take a free card off... I then hope to catch an Ace or King or at worst a Spade on the turn,

Push preflop, This is a lot easier then.

[GatorJH]

Your M is less than 5 so you don't have the juice to chase hands. If you push here and everyone folds you just increased your stack by 350 chips. If you get a call you are most likely in a race to double up and you get to see all 5 cards, both of these are good things.

[MortenTA]

Your M is less than 5

My M is 1375/100+50=9

I pushed the flop, but thinking this hand through again i am leaning towards pushing preflop.
I should have been happy collecting the blinds + limpers.. But i guess the outcome of the hand wasnt so bad

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t100 (8 handed) FTR converter on zerodivide.cx

MP1 (t580)
MP2 (t2695)
CO (t2170)
Hero (t1375)
SB (t1790)
BB (t1895)
UTG (t1995)
UTG+1 (t1000)

Preflop: Hero is Button with A, K.
UTG calls t100, 1 fold, MP1 calls t100, 2 folds, Hero raises to t450, 2 folds, UTG calls t350, MP1 calls t350.

Flop: (t1500) 6, 6, 9 (3 players)
UTG checks, MP1 checks, Hero bets t925 (All-In), UTG calls t925, MP1 folds.

Turn: (t3350) 9 (2 players, 1 all-in)

River: (t3350) A (2 players, 1 all-in)

Final Pot: t3350

UTG has Ts Tc (two pair, tens and nines).
Hero has As Ks (two pair, aces and nines).
Outcome: Hero wins t3350.