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Message: [QUOTE="fundiver199, post: 6416532, member: 397965"] Preflop Putting a hand like AKs in your calling range some percentage of the time make you more balanced and difficult to play against. And you also keep the limper in with dominated hands. But with that being said this is a 2$ SnG, so I dont think, balance is important, and I would just 3-bet for value against CO with intention to get it in, if either player 4-bet. Flop You ask about SPR, and SPR is a tool, you use on the flop to plan the hand, before any action has happened. In this case the SPR was around 4 against the limper and around 2 against CO. Less than 3 is an auto stack-off with TPTK, and 3-6 is a grey zone. In this case I would be willing to stack off against both players. The reason is, CO limped into the pot, so he is almost certainly a bad player, and this is also a very low buyin. So even though I think, CO can have basically all the 2 pair combos on this board, he can also have a lot of other hands, that you are ahead off, and that he will also be willing to stack off. So my plan on the flop would be to play for stacks against both opponents, if I get a clean board runout. This is an important point, because if the turn is really bad like 4 of diamonds, and there is heavy action, then we should certainly reevaluate. And with that being said I would not raise the flop. Raising now goes against the whole idea, why you might not raise preflop. Yes you get value from CO, but you can also get that value on the turn and river, and you force the limper to have a really good hand to continue. When the limper 3-bet jam, thats a very strong action, so I am not loving AK at this point. But you have already put in nearly half the effective stack, and here another old school concept comes into play, which is pot commitment. Just as SPR this is only a guideline, but it says, that once you put in more than 33% of the effective stack, you are pot committed and should not fold. This is of course assuming, that you have a hand with showdown value, so it dont apply, if you are bluffing the river and get raised. But it apply in this situation, and the reason is, you only need around 25% equity to make a breakeven call. And you will have that here. Sometimes the limper might be overplaying AQ or AJ or going with a draw. And even if he have two pair, you can win by spiking a Q and also by a paired board, which counterfeit him. If he has A5, runouts like J6, 77 or QQ will give you the same two pair, but you will have a better kicker. [/QUOTE]

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