2$ Prima MTT Ace King vs All in from Early position

[Phantaroth]

** Game ID 702661132 starting - 2006-02-27 21:43:11

** $2 NL Freezeout:Table 15 [Multi Table Hold 'em] (20.00|40.00 No Limit - MTT) Real Money



- lowkeydog sitting in seat 1 with $1440.00 [Dealer]

- baddazgee sitting in seat 2 with $1440.00

- tausk05 sitting in seat 3 with $3010.00

- -Nickels- sitting in seat 4 with $1480.00

- simmien sitting in seat 6 with $490.00

- MRFLIP sitting in seat 7 with $2850.00

- qcarolj sitting in seat 8 with $2950.00

- DavJP sitting in seat 9 with $1900.00

- TheArgyle sitting in seat 10 with $3100.00



baddazgee posted the small blind - $10.00

tausk05 posted the big blind - $20.00



** Dealing card to TheArgyle: Ace of Spades, King of Hearts

-Nickels- folded

simmien folded

MRFLIP folded

qcarolj called - $20.00

DavJP went all-in - $1900.00

TheArgyle ???



Thoughts?
No reads on this player, early in the MTT.

[fjuanl]

I think I might gamble here...even if you lose you aren't even shorstacked with the blinds at 10/20. Best case scenario your dominating, worse case scenario your flipping. Given that its a $2 MTT you might be against some donk too

[Zidane18]

never fold ace king except in extreme circumstances

[aleksandr]

ziddy, hahaha but seriously, your choice here. I say take this donk for a ride. I bet you're flipping vs. QQ, and it's a great chance to become very strong early and try to ride through.

probably -ev in the long run though.

[chardrian]

This is actually the only time where folding AK is not such a horrible move.

You might be dominating some hands, you might be facing KK or AA; but probably you are facing a smaller pair. So equity wise this comes out to a coin toss.

I'd much rather push over someone's preflop raise with AK than simply call their all-in with it at this stage.

[Sprayed]

It's a flip. Reraise to isolate.

[Phantaroth]

How it played out for those interest:

I also pushed all in , everyone folded, guy flips 22 and the 2's hold up vs AK.

Thats the way it goes, I stayed in for a while before getting eliminated in 60-ish place out of 220? something like that.

Oh well.

[drmcboy]

Easy fold. Not much value here in a call. How many times have we all posted something like "This might be a good spot to just randomly shove in with AA, some donk may call you with crap because it's early"

In this hand, you're that donk. Recognize you're getting 1/1 here from the pot. If you think there is a better chance he makes this play unpaired than with KK/AA it's an OK, but eh, call. If the numbers are more like AQ or worse 5 %, flip 80 %, AA/KK 15 %, this call sucks. You are a dog to 22, 2/1ish over most non A hands... I can't find a reason to make this play. Also, you don't close the action - if someone wakes up with AA/KK behind you're screwed.

Now, if he's done this twice already, that would be something different. First time around, I have no heartache folding AK here.

[chardrian]

It is early in a $2 MTT. So I'm leaning more towards the call being on the "gooder" side (especially since you have the all-inner outstacked), but as I said before, a fold here is definitely fine.