Calling all ins with AK
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Calling all ins with AK
When I 3bet AK and the original raiser 4bets all in. What sort of range does he need to be going all in with for AK to be a good call?? Would him shoving AA, KK, QQ, AK be enough??
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If you 3bet to 10 and face a jam for 100, then you're calling 90 and the final pot will be roughly 200 (plus any other dead money minus rake). So you'd need 90/200 = 45% equity. There are lots of programs that will let you calculate equity of hand vs range (I use an old one called pokerstove, I think equilab might be another free one but not sure.)
Vs AA-QQ, AK, AK has 38% equity so you should definitely fold but that's a weird shoving range - almost no one just jams over a 3bet with AA or KK. Many people's range for jamming in that kind of spot is {AK} so there you call and chop. If they also jam some pairs then it's close, vs QQ-TT/AK you have 45% exactly so depending on rake you might be supposed to fold.
Thanks Steve. So I workout the equity I need and then play around in pokerstove to see what my oppoent range needs to be to get 45% for AK.
When you mention rake, are you saying because some of the pot gets taken away it makes our equity worse??
If QQ-TT/AK is still a fold. I guess my opponent needs to be shoving AQ and suited Ax to start making this call.
Rake doesn't affect your equity but affects the size of the pot. 45% of a 200bb pot is 90bb, 45% of a 195bb pot is only 87.8bb
So the more rake, the more equity you need
yes. Equity * size of pot is your expected return, so if size of pot goes down the equity you'll need to breakeven will go up.
Thanks Steve. Now I understand why people are bothered about rake.
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