AKs Allin Pre?

AKs Allin Pre?

According to theory we are stacking AKs preflop in many situations, whether it's a 5-bet allin or calling a 5-bet allin. How do you guys feel AKs holds up in these spots at the micro stakes? Do you guys think, against your player pools, that it's making you more money than it should be due to looser allins pre, or that you could exploitatively fold/flat call the 4-bets due to general nittiness in your player pools with allins pre?

Personally I've been playing 5NL on Ignition and after a few thousand hands (very small sample I know), it appears that people are overfolding a ton, and allins pre and post tend to be extremely nutted. The level of limp folding I've encountered, for example, is absurd. The old advice of "don't raise to fold out limpers because they limp to call" doesn't hold up in the slightest with what I've seen. With that being said, this general nittiness and overfolding appears to be present vs 3-bets, vs 4-bets, vs C-bets, etc. If that's truly the case, I don't know if I should be stacking AKs preflop so readily. I mean at a baseline it should be unexploitable and therefore never bad(unprofitable), right?

01 September 2025 at 06:39 AM
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At micros I’d lean nitty with it, people’s 5-bet ranges are usually just KK+ and maybe AK.


Would make a difference between calling 5bet AI and 5bet AI on your own in your analysis. But assuming, they only stack off KK+, AK (which they don't), with QQ+, AK you'd have 47,1% equity, so with the money in the pot after your 4bet I'd call a 5bet AI with these hands.

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