Its amazing how people in poker idolize AK. It's a draw hand folks, not an auto all in. Anyways out 9th with KK losing to an auto allin with AK. I think I will save myself 40$ and sit out the rest of the way. Good luck guys.
Yes sorry! I guess that was me. I didn't expect you to actually call the all-in from me. I thought you were bluffing and I was trying to steal your bet. Never thought I'd win the hand. But luck was unfortunately on my side. Sure, that wasn't good poker playing on my part, but I'm not very good at poker per se either. Sorry it went like this.
GG to everyone who played along. I had fun that evening and would like to thank everyone who took part.
Let me educate you if I may.
1. There are tons of people who think like you do and will shove AK all in. IMO it's a drawing hand and while I want to see a flop with it, I do not believe it's worth my whole stack. At least not preflop. If you run into AA or something like that, you just threw away your whole tourney on that 1 hand.
2. When a person puts 30% or more of their stack in preflop, they're most likely calling an all in. So, there is no stealing at that point.
3. Had you just called my raise and seen a flop, I think you would have been justified to go allin after the flop since you had a nut flush draw. Likely I would still have called with a 6 high board and if I put you on a draw you only had a 30% chance to hit it. Pretty easy call for me.
You guys chips are yours to play however you want, but I'm just not into flipping $20 bills with people at this stage in my life as I obviously don't have it to waste right now. I think I'm a decent player and should be able to beat this field consistently, but lot's play no foldem holdem or Bingo and makes it tough. As Hhampuz said, it's treated like a freeroll due to alot not knowing what they're doing or just wanting to enjoy a game with the community. I'm not mad at anyone period. You play however you want. I'm mad I am not winning the flips when they count and I am well ahead.