Poker all in?

Question

if you have AK suited hearts and goes all in against someone with pockets 2 pre flop and lose the race is it a bad play on your part? Am I making a correct play here or I just gambled too much? thanks in advance!

Answer 1

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Answer 2

You're going all in to early.

Bet large as if your bluffing but NOT all in, or people will know you've got a good hand.

Answer 3

AKs is a strong hand, one of the best starting hands you can have.  But it is still a drawing hand, and probably won't win without improvement.

If you move all in with it, and someone calls you with a pocket pair, it is a coin flip that you lose just a little bit more than you win Unless the pocket pair is aces of kings, in which case you are a dog.

But from your question it is not clear when, where or why you are going all in.  If you just move all in against the blinds with no others in the pot, it's not a good play.  If someone entered the pot for a raise, and you move all in, it's not so bad since you are forcing the action and you might just win because the other players fold.

But never automatically make a certain move for certain hands, or good players will pick up on that.  If you move all in whenever you get AK, it gives too much information away.  Sometimes you want to limp, sometimes you want to make a small raise, other times you might want to go all in.  But above all else, don't become predictable at the table.

Getting back to your question, the only way to determine if you made a good play or not is to know the context of what happened.  In some circumstances all in might be the right move, and other times it may not be.

If you are playing a tournament with no rebuys you have to ask yourself if the risk of putting all your chips on the line is worth the reward.

Answer 4

It all depends on a lot of things, do you have big chips, or are you short?  Do you have position on the other players? How many other players are in the pot with you? Is the other player loose or tight, are you loose or tight? Is it a cash game or tourney? These are key factors in playing any hand in poker. So sometimes it might be right to call and gamble with A-k, and other times you may want to just fold it. But in general A-k is a big hand PRE-FLOP ONLY afetr the flop most times A-k becomes junk since you will miss the flop with it most times. So it is right to push hard with A-k in a lot of cases, but calling an all-in with it is a two sided coin, #1 you are at worst 50/50 with most pairs, only aces and kings have you in trouble here, and even if they have two kings you are still only a 70-30 dog with A-k. #2 you have hands like A-Q, and A-J crushed, but hands like 9-10 and Q-j are not as big of a dog as you might think so. But sometimes you may want to fold A-k as well. For example lets say you have A-k in a tourney and you are chip leader, and the guy with the 2-2's goes all in and he has almost as many chips as you do. This is a spot where you can lay it down to the all-in since if you lose the hand you will be on short chips. So it all does depend on whats going on at the table.

Answer 5

At the risk of being redundant ...

We need more info to answer the question.  Sometimes all-in with an AK suited is an excellent move, other times it's moronic .... usually it's somewhere in the middle.

Two easy examples ...

You're on the SB and the blinds are fairly high in a tourney.  You have a reasonably short stack.  One or 2 players limp.  You need to make a move, but you'd prefer to win the pot immediately, rather than playing out of position the whole hand, so rather than a traditional raise, you go all-in.     Very strong play.

You're one seat off the button and the blinds are fairly low in a tourney.  You have the 3rd best stack at the table.  The chip leader limps in.  You will have position on the board, and be able to take advantage of a good flop, or run away from a bad one.  Rather than a traditional raise, you go all-in.     Very weak play.

Answer 6

Joining the chorus of the others, you haven't given near enough facts to answer your question.  Are you talking tournament play, if so...what is your chip stack, what is your stack in relationship to other stacks, what level of the tournament are yall, what are the blinds and antes (if the antes have kicked in yet) what is your stack in relationship to the blinds and antes (your M), how fast are the blinds increasing, what is your image, what are your reads on the others, etc...etc...etc...If you are short stacked with an M of 3 and you are UTG that is your only move, all in.  If it is early on in the tournament, you are above average in chips, it is a stupid move. (I obviously dont have the space nor time to answer the whys on those two situations).  

If it is a ring game, donk move, period, end of discussion.  A/K be it suited or not just doesn't have the value it has in a tournament in a ring game.  It is nothing more than a good drawing hand in cash games, and should be played for a raise, but not nowhere near all in, and like other drawing hands, if  ya don't hit, muck it.

So in short, there are situations it was the right and correct play, there are situations where it was a foolish play, and then there are situations where it is a spot to gamble.

Answer 7

you dont give to much info as to if you were playing in a tourney, how many people were left, what your postion was, how much you had - were you the short stack or one of the chip leaders? there is to many questions and things to know if you made a good move or not. did the person with the pair act before you and raise or was he after you? i like the move and you came up against a sm pr that held up. nothing you can do about that. dont get frustrated about the move. i have seen pocket AA lose to a J 10 off. just because you or someone has a pair and are the fav before the flop doesnt always mean you are going to win the hand. in your case it was just a sm pr that called you and they held up to beat you.

Answer 8

Yes, it is a coinflip but AK is still a drawing hand.  Going all-in with it is a risk but depends on position, chip stack, the way the others play and many other factors you don't go into here.  In general an all-in bet with AK without any prompting (you just do it on your own with no bets or action in front of you) is gambling too much.