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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Steve Paul 24 days ago

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.

tbeckett 23 days ago

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.

Steve Paul 21 days ago

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

Steve Paul 20 days ago

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.

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