Since the forum re-organisation I've been looking through some of these old poker posts (did
TDP really exist in 2005 by the way? Time flies
), and think that this deserves to be re-visited, one of the best threads in
TDP poker.
Personally, until reading this, I'd never really even considered anything other than a raise with AK (unless in the blinds where I'll check/limp a lot of hands for the disguise, and not wanting to committ too many chips out of position).
I have to admit, in the dark days of my poker life (the manic-agressive period
) AK was just the kind of hand I would overplay, and lose my stack with.
I'm a lot more passive pre-flop these days with this holding, and as a result it is quite common to take stacks of people playing AJ etc when the flop comes Axx. Of course, you have to be more wary of flops like AQx AJx ATx, but at the end of the day you have a drawing hand preflop, you might as well draw with it while it's as cheap as possible.