Limping With AK on the button

[ripjohngotti]

$5+$1 (real money), hand #1,043,821,336
Brownsville Single Table Tournament, 24 Sep 2006 06:50 AM
View Previous hand for this table.
Seat 1: ludsy01 ($1,690 in chips)
Seat 2: mrwoodchuck. ($1,480 in chips)
Seat 3: HanskiJyri ($1,630 in chips)
Seat 4: str8t8r ($1,340 in chips)
Seat 5: newshoes4me ($1,470 in chips)
Seat 6: RIPJohnGotti [KH,AS] ($1,470 in chips)
Seat 7: elamaan ($1,440 in chips)
Seat 8: spira00 ($1,500 in chips)
Seat 9: Beeeetlerama ($1,500 in chips)
Seat 10: maloche ($1,480 in chips)
ANTES/BLINDS
elamaan posts blind ($10), spira00 posts blind ($20).

PRE-FLOP
Beeeetlerama folds, maloche calls $20, ludsy01 calls $20, mrwoodchuck. calls $20, HanskiJyri folds, str8t8r calls $20, newshoes4me folds, RIPJohnGotti calls $20, elamaan folds, spira00 checks.

FLOP [board cards JD,5S,9C ]
spira00 checks, maloche checks, ludsy01 checks, mrwoodchuck. checks, str8t8r checks, RIPJohnGotti checks.

TURN [board cards JD,5S,9C,KS ]
spira00 checks, maloche checks, ludsy01 checks, mrwoodchuck. checks, str8t8r checks, RIPJohnGotti bets $100, spira00 calls $100, maloche calls $100, ludsy01 folds, mrwoodchuck. folds, str8t8r folds.

RIVER [board cards JD,5S,9C,KS,8C ]
spira00 checks, maloche checks, RIPJohnGotti bets $200, spira00 folds, maloche folds.

SHOWDOWN
RIPJohnGotti wins $630.


I dont do it very often, Can someone discuss if I played this okay?

[taipan168]

I bump it to 120-140 preflop. AK figures to be the best hand preflop. The problem with just limping is that even if you hit your A or a K you can't feel comfortable committing your whole stack because if there are 5-6 players seeing the flop, one of them might have hit a BB special two pair.

As played, postflop is fine I think.

[ripjohngotti]

120-140? Therses about 100 in the pot already, anyone who calls this bet has proper odds (though they dont think like this)

You must bump it to at least 200 in this situation

No more HHs to you via pm, they were banned thanks

[taipan168]

120-140? Therses about 100 in the pot already, anyone who calls this bet has proper odds (though they dont think like this)

What proper odds? They're not getting proper odds to call with crap.

You must bump it to at least 200 in this situation

There's no need to go berserk, you are on the button on this hand, you can use your postflop position.

No more HHs to you via pm, they were banned thanks

If you have legitimate hands or questions which are worth anybody answering, then share them with the whole forum. Why just send them to me when you can get the benefit of everybody's comments and insight?

[biondino]

With 4 limpers before you AK becomes an APPALLING hand if you don't raise - reverse implied odds are massive and the pot is small. I can't really ever excuse limping AK on the button - maybe if there's an aggro dude or a short stack in the blinds who you think will raise, at which point you push. But not with 4, or even 2, limpers.