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Message: [QUOTE="Aballinamion, post: 5640455, member: 289533"] AKo is a fine combo but when we do find ourselves in situations like this we keep wondering how strong it really is. What happens here is very strange. When UTG open raises and BTN 3-bets usually are the best hands, because if we consider the fact that UTG could be opening raise with 15% range, the great part of this range will never fold to a 3-bet and some small part of this range is going to 4-bet. However, BTN chooses the same old polarization, that we have seen at the micros and mid stakes, on-line, a hundred of times: we can bet almost always that BTN is never polarizing its 3-bet range with non-sense hands, but with heavy value, premium hands only. Of course, there are tilted and mental breakdown players, but I believe if this was the case you would have told us. So, according to the logic of the hand, UTG 3x, BTN 3-bets to + 5x and then Hero, sitting OOP, elects to Cold 4-bet to another 3x: To me the math here is very simple: once you put much more than 30% of your stack at the table, it is much better to be going all-in preflop and if BTN or UTG have KK+ good for them we are still (poorly) drawing. But when we put nearly 42% of our stack preflop, do we have any plans of folding to any kind of flop? Again, we were all-in already preflop, you should not give recreational players the chance to hit something or much worse, to call your 4-bet preflop and fold on the flop to some convenient situations, for example, when the flops contains Qx, Kx and Ax: when we do go all-in here we don't give Villain the opportunity to play close to godlike and fold on the flop. Another hand that proves me a lot that players are not looking to ranges, but they are playing totally "faced-up", as the community classifies these types of mechanical behaviors. Regards; Carlos 'Aballinamion' Barbosa [/QUOTE]

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