All in Preflop with AK...

[bdawg31]

I have been running cold and getting CRUSHED with AK. I had recently been mulling the whole thing about Don pushing and how he gets deep and blah-blah-blah. Figured i was not playing that well - so why not just push with it and see what happens.

Now, i dont do this when the blinds are low - i play it 'normal' at that point, but i get off it at any sign of resistance or trouble. But, once the blinds are 'reasonable' i have been pushing with it.

I am appx 14-15 hands won with it doing this. This includes a suckout vs AA though. I have doubled up two or three times total (counting the suckout), taken down a few hands that were raised (and then folded to my push), taken a lot of blinds, and lost once when i got called by 66 (i couldnt believe it - the blinds were 100/200 and i went all-in for 3k and the guy called off almost all his stack - just as the table was making fun of me).

I am not sure yet how i feel about this. Part of Don doing this in the live games is that he was able to make the WHOLE table know it - and then he used that for other hands. I saw him push with A9s and make some comment and the other guy threw away AJ (don then showed the A9). But he had created this by doing the whole "I always push with AK" shtick.

Now, last night i was getting deep in a $100 tourney at UB and i got it one off the button. A tight, good player made a min-raise UTG. This set off red flags so i just called with AK. Rags flopped and i folded. That was the only time i have not pushed with it recently.