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Thought about this alot lately...Tourny bubble is near, and you have 10 BB's left...Would you rather be all in with AK or 22? Personally id rather AK because a bigger stack is going to call in a lot of situations with Ax, where one of the over cards will kill your 22...Any insight from you guys??

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All in and all aboard!! The spaceship to the outer reaches of the galaxy, what a wonderful trip it shall be!! Truly I say to you, the man who winces at the pain will not understand the silence of eternity!! You ask me where I've been, but I ask you "Where are you going??"I marvel at all I have learned in the short time I was here on earth. I've seen so much pain, but I've seen the laughter too, and isn't it in the laughter of a small child that we are truly reminded of all we've been, every sight we've seen, and the heights to which we will rise?? This I truly and honestly believe. And if in time your soul longs for more, as it does so often, remember the words I spoke on that final night of my stay on this blue and green orb, "That's as far as it goes. It can go no further." Were truer words ever spoken?? Wonderful!!
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Let's say you have 22 and they have AK. Or vice versa. Really it doesn't matter since it's pretty much a coinflip.AK is nice to have because calling hands will sometimes be partially counterfeited if they call you with Ax. But either way...

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Let's say you have 22 and they have AK. Or vice versa. Really it doesn't matter since it's pretty much a coinflip.AK is nice to have because calling hands will sometimes be partially counterfeited if they call you with Ax. But either way...
That is precisely the reason why AK > 22. There are very few hands that 22 dominiates, I supposed A2-32, but, AK is ahead of a million hands, and dominates a ton of them.
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if u run 22 vs AK for a large number of hands, 22 wins the majority.does this factor in to the decision?
If you mean 52% of the time then yes 22 wins the "majority" of the time. Otherwise AK is better for all the reasons listed above.
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i can't believe this thread has so many responses. its seriously like asking "would you rather have AK or AKs?? durrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrh.
I suppose I see where you are coming from, as in the consensus should be AKs, but that only gives you a small increase in winning chances.AK over 22 isn't even close.
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i think the problem is in thinking about 22 vs AK where 22 has that slim %age. the question isn't about these hands versus each other, but rather versus a random hand with which someone will want to be all in or put you all in. that 'random hand' pre-supposes a certain amount of strength against which 22 pales & AK at least holds its own.

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i think the problem is in thinking about 22 vs AK where 22 has that slim %age. the question isn't about these hands versus each other, but rather versus a random hand with which someone will want to be all in or put you all in. that 'random hand' pre-supposes a certain amount of strength against which 22 pales & AK at least holds its own.
as in AK is 66% vs a random hand while 22 is 50.3%. It's not close.
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as in AK is 66% vs a random hand while 22 is 50.3%. It's not close.
i don't think those %ages apply against a 'random hand' someone will be willing to risk all in near the bubble. it'd be against an upper third or fewer of hands quality-wise. <pondering> but the idea is right.
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i don't think those %ages apply against a 'random hand' someone will be willing to risk all in near the bubble. it'd be against an upper third or fewer of hands quality-wise. <pondering> but the idea is right.
still, here's vs a pretty tight range:
Text results appended to pokerstove.txt   3,534,195,456  games	 4.907 secs   720,235,470  games/secBoard: Dead:  			equity (%)	  win (%)	tie (%) Hand  1:	55.0684 %	  50.97% 	04.10%	  { AKs, AKo }Hand  2:	44.9316 %	  40.83% 	04.10%	  { 22+, ATs+, KQs, ATo+, KQo }

and 22

Text results appended to pokerstove.txt   1,571,895,072  games	 1.973 secs   796,703,026  games/secBoard: Dead:  			equity (%)	  win (%)	tie (%) Hand  1:	35.8025 %	  34.93% 	00.87%	  { 22 }Hand  2:	64.1975 %	  63.33% 	00.87%	  { 22+, ATs+, KQs, ATo+, KQo }

Still, not close.

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Still, not close.
we're arguing colour of the same side of the coin. but i shall look at pokerstove, i'm liking how you quickly got some numbers where i was just eyeballing that the %ages would be lower but still have ak giving us a chance whereas 22 gets worse and worse (ie, 'pales' as i said).<wandering off to fire up google>
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