AK, how would you respond?

[boom3r]

Seat 1: Go4broke (1165 in chips)
Seat 2: cheekysmooth (1015 in chips)
Seat 3: iamback54 (1595 in chips)
Seat 4: shaun2510 (805 in chips)
Seat 5: tranquil10 (2455 in chips)
Seat 6: PROspect9 (2185 in chips)
Seat 8: Toba's Poker (2555 in chips)
Seat 9: boomer029 (1725 in chips)
PROspect9: posts small blind 25
Toba's Poker: posts big blind 50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to boomer029 [Ah Kd]
boomer029: raises 150 to 200


Table is not very tight, yet not very loose either - somewhere in the middle. In this situation i was thinking to myself how i would respond to a re raise or if soeone decided to push. With blinds being only 25/50 my stack is still in pretty good shape, and a taking a coinflip in this situation doesn't seem right to me. If they called, even tho i'm oop i still feel comfortable playin AK and i havent really invested to much in the pot if i do miss and decide to get away from it. So at this point, i was calling the short stacks all in, probably folding to anyone else if they pushed, and would have called a re raise. What do you guys think?


Go4broke: folds
cheekysmooth: folds
iamback54: folds
shaun2510: folds
tranquil10: folds
PROspect9: folds
boomer029 collected 125 from pot
boomer029: doesn't show hand

[bode]

seriously? You're obviously not going to fold AK in an unopened pot, are you?

[boom3r]

hahah, where did i say that...i wasn't asking what to do first, obv im raising lol...if u read it right, i was thinking ahead of certain situations that might come up (opp re raises/opp pushes)

[taipan168]

I would open raise to 150 not 200. If you're called and want to c-bet the flop it just keeps the pot a bit smaller.

If somebody calls, a) obv if an A or K hit I'm getting it AI and b) if it doesn't hit I'm 80%+ c-betting the missed flop and expecting to take it down.

If somebody pushes over, it is read dependent. If they have been super LAggy up to now I call, otherwise I probably just let it go. That said, if any of the three shorter stacks shove over I'm more inclined to call as I think their ranges will be wider.