one reason why i limp with AK UTG

[kennyg]

1/2 no limit prima

dealt AKo UTG. i limp. MP raises minimum to $4. He gets 3 callers. $18 now in the pot.

It gets back to me. I reraise to $20 repping AA. Everyone folds.


A perfect pot for AK...a free $16 profit with no chance of losing to a bad beat!

I'm pretty sure ice does this. Anyone else use this play?

[WC]

[iceman5]

If there was a min raise and a couple calls I might do it, but if it was a real raise and a call or more than one call, I would just call.

[Gregor]

[MindOverMatter]

I make this play frequently at Party 25NL, and love it. In fact, I do this with hands as bad as AJs on occasion, but only against certain competition. The kind of competition I'm talking about is that which raises too much with poor quality hands; for instance, those who raise with basically any A or any two broadway cards if the pot is unraised to them. These players also typically are minraising with their crap, so it makes it way easy to pick them off. Sometimes they even call with their garbage, and that's typically just bonus.