All in Preflop with AK...

[Zybomb]

It seems the only way you will get action is

1- if you are up against a dumb player

2- you are beat

3- you are at a coin flip with a large pair (say 99-QQ, but more liekly only JJ and QQ)

it's tough to factor 1 into numbers, being each table is different

Sure you eliminate alot of 60.40 situations with QJ 98s and such but it seems you'll either take down this small pot, or otherwise have to get lucky. And your risking your tournament to add a 1/15 increse to yuor stack

AK is one of the most overvalue hands in hold em

Contrasting for a second, in a big tournament a lot of people (pros especially) simply play for the win... they go for a big stack early or they go for bust, that means moving all in on that flush draw with overs (or in johnny chan's case calling with the 2nd nut flush draw with 1 card to come and no overs???) [2003 WSOP] This could be a case similiar to that, hoping your up against either an idiot, or JJ and you wint he race