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A micsoncpetion is fearing AK in a situation like this. Call it Everytime, You are a 52-48 Favorite If he's suited. and there's 12.75 in the pot. So you're WAY ahead long-term with this decision. You've got to Raise it all-in here, Hope he doesn't have AA or KK take your chances and let it ride.Meh, I'm not so sure. AK would not make this kind of raise. Before he posted results I figured villain for AA or KK. AK would have called, raised a little extra, or pushed hero's raise, it seems.Another thing to consider is how much villain has behind him.A lot of the problems could have been solved

You donk, both hands are a clear fold preflop!

In that case you need to bet the river. It's a thin river bet, but a necessary one against this kind of opponent.

Your fold is only justified if the tournament structure has the blinds escalating at a much slower rate, like many bigger tournaments.Since the blinds are gonna escalate every 15 minutes and you only have ~15 BB at this point to begin with, I think this is an easy push.

You picked the wrong street to get aggressive.3-bet flop. It will help narrow range of villains hands.

Different mentalities, I guess.I think there's a better than 1 in 20 chance that nobody has an ace. That should change your strategy.It's also a big pot. I want to win it, not hang on and hope for a miracle on fourth street.Furthermore, if I lose the hand, I gain advertising.

I had a hand that was very similar to this earlier today.UTG had raised, he was overaggro but solid, I had AQo and 3-bet. He capped. I called.Flop came A24.There is no sense for me to get aggressive, because if he has KK or QQ he will shut down and if he has AK he will fire back at me.I check-called every street on a A2478 board. He had KK.

To elaborateBy the turn the board was something like T74TLawson had 89xx, thought he had a straightLee Watkinson had something like AQTx

It's well known that Hansen (aka Broksi on Stars) is one of the biggest fish at the 100/200 tables on PS along with Hellmuth.

Then you can fold. Calling the flop is only going to encourage a hand like KK or QQ to continue firing to your weak resistance on the turn and/or river, giving you improper odds to continue. But if you raise, KK or QQ will shut down, maybe even fold.Since PF was a cap, you get the benefit of greatly narrowing your hand reads of the opponents. Calling the 3-bet makes sense only if villain is a total maniac.

You should only fold KK in two scenarios:1) When you are chopping away at other people's stacks in a bubble situation in a tournament, and knocking someone out with KK will end the bubble and resume normal play2) When you're facing resistance from a very large stack and you have a ton of chips in a satellite and you have a >95% chance of getting your entry seat by folding in.

Push. It isn't close.Heck, I would push this with much smaller blinds.

I would be tempted to raise the flop here just to gain information and represent a strong ace.It really seems like MP1 has KK or QQ and was making a continuation bet.Your turn bet doesn't accomplish much in the eyes of a thinking opponent due to your flop action.If your opponents are the type that will get into call-down mode, so be it. But I think a flop raise is in order here. You need to define the range of opponents hands, (possibly win the pot right there against weak-tighties with KK or QQ).The only thing I don't like is the turn bet. KK-JJ will not go away.River check seems fine.