Could I Have Gotten Away?

[Pat Reilly]

Standard open to 8 from UTG with AK of spades and around 230 effective get called by an older player in the cutoff and the small blind. Flop comes AK7 rainbow SB leads for 15 i repop it to 45 and cutoff makes it 140. SB folds and i jam he snap calls with 77. Is this just a cooler or should I have read him for the one hand that he can have that beats me (assuming he’d 3 bet aces or kings plus I hold blockers to both)

[Mike]

You block AK, AA, KK all of which are expected to 3b anyways pre. Having said that, there remains 1 combo of AA, 1 combo of KK, 3 combos of 77. While he’s repping an extremely narrow range, part of that is made up of worse 2 pairs. The only other hands he may ever show up with are some suited pairs with backdoor combo draws, while his range is extremely narrow, folding to this stack depth is disastrous. If your question is between flatting or jamming, I live jamming the flop. If he shows up with some BDFD + pair/SD combos you’re going to want to deny equity even though he’s essentially committed at this point. Unlucky result I guess he ends up showing up with one of the few combos that have you beat, even then you still have some equity against. Cooler.

[turbulent1]

I don’t think I am at the point in my poker playing career that I could get away from this hand. However, there are only 9 combinations of hands left that he would 3 bet the flop with, and you beat none of them. so the best you are hoping for in this situation is a chop.

[Steve]

I personally would rarely raise this flop for fear of folding out the small blind or the button.
Then when the button raises, alarm bells go off.
Still, I can’t see me ever folding with only $230 effective, so in all likelihood the result is the same.

[Tim]

Never ever folding. But, I agree with the second thoughts about it. Sometimes you just know they have the 1 hand that beats you. Opponent dependent and of course you would have 177 or so in front of you if you find a fold.

[The House]

Short answer: no, you couldn’t.

[Austin]

I like Steve’s point. Doesn’t seem like a raise on the flop is the best play. You mostly get hands that are worse to fold. There are not a lot of draws out there that are going to stick around for a raise. I’m guessing that most the time the player behind you misses the board a folds and then you are left with a better spot playing a strong hand in position against a seemingly a bad player. Him taking the lead here is pretty bad.

[Steven Young]

Yeah never getting away from this. You beat pretty much everything in his range except his exact hand. He would would have raised with AK or AA or KK preflop. Not much you can do.

[Jameson]

If his range is only AK or 77 you should fold. If he has like 2 combos of A7s, and K7s each, that makes it a call. Problem is that A7 and K7 might not exactly play it like this as they would be wary sometimes of AK, while 77 would be play it exactly like this. Tough spot.

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