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Live $5-$5: How would you play AK in this 3-Way pot?

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Live $5-$5: How would you play AK in this 3-Way pot?

Players and Stack Sizes:
V1: older reg, LAG, seen him use the limp with AA-JJ, AKo+ strategy from earlier positions. $475.
V2: younger tag; had been running pretty poorly the entire time he had been sitting at the table. $600.
Hero: younger tag/lag; players at the table saw one unsuccessful bluff I had made in a previous hand against V2, beyond that I had primarily won pots before showdown. $1,245.

Pre Flop:
V1 UTG limps, player to his left limps, folds to me in the CO with Ah Kd and I make it $35, V2 BTN calls, V1 calls, and the last limper folds.

Flop ($110) comes Qs Th 3h. V1 checks, I decide to check (I feel like I missed a c-bet here.. Full Disclosure: my failed bluff against V2 in the prev. hand made me feel biased against c-betting). V2 bets out $75. V1 calls, I call.

Turn ($335) brings the Kh. V1 checks, I check, and V2 bets out $110 (had I c-bet on the flop, I feel could fire or raise on this turn, but again, I was unsure of what the best action overall here was given the way I played this hand. At this point, I felt like V2 had a strong hand like two pair+ or some pair+straight draw and was protecting his hand and I think I should have raised with the Ah in my hand to get V1 out, but again, not sure what the correct move here was).

River ($665) brings the 3s. V1 checks, I checked and V2 checks... V1 shows Jh Js and V2 mucked his hand.

Definitely one of the more passive hands I've played in this hand scenario but like I said above, I was biased against myself to make the right actions and definitely feel like I missed value in some spots. Also felt like I didn't protect my hand when in other scenarios I should have.
We won the pot but I don't like how I played this hand. Any comments on how you'd play this hand differently are more than welcome!

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BarracudaNL 6 years, 7 months ago

I think you played the hand just fine. Turn and river are completely standard, flop you can go either way. Your hand was never great, so going passive is fine.

JRthekid32 6 years, 7 months ago

I think whether to cbet this particular combo is heavily game flow dependent and whether you think you'd be able to triple barrel. Your recent failed bluff shouldn't by itself make you afraid to bluff again, but I do feel like it biases other players into feeling more comfortable calling down against you, so for that reason I think a flop check makes sense. Turn and river would play how you did.

JACKraceLUKE 6 years, 7 months ago

I totally agree with previous postings. Turn and River is just fine.
On the flop this AK combo is probably a mix between betting and checking, however if you decide to c-bet I would choose a much smaller sizing than V2 did in order to have some room to maneuver on turns and rivers vs their already relatively short stack sizes.

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