Eric Johnson

The hand at 5 minutes with AK -- You start off by saying that Geeken is playing like a man who wants to be laddering up the pay-scale and is playing fairly tight. When he calls pre - your range assigned to him is probably pretty correct. I don't understand why you are bet-calling, as this type of player isn't likely to turn his Ax hands into semi-bluffs. I think there are hands that he is maybe check-shoving with such as 9s thru Qs. I guess my question is, why bet-call it off - why not just shove? Shoving against a player like this who is playing quite tight and trying to move up the ladder is sometimes going to get him to fold out hands like QQ-88 as these type of players may likely put you on a higher pair. Against a tricky reg, I understand the bet-calling because they could turn their AQ hands into semi-bluff shoves, but probably not against this player.