beaston

Sounds to me like he's a smart player. AK is a hand that is grossly overplayed, in cash games and even more in tournaments. You have to remember that you're only going to hit the flop around 30% of the time, and if there's a pre-flop raise and a more than one person calls, then more than likely at least 1 other person has an ace and your chances of catching anything on the flop are greatly reduced.

I had a similar hand in a tournament not too long ago, with holding the same cards, AKs. There was a raise and a re-raise preflop, and although it's a hard hand to get away from, I did fold. Both players that were battling it out both ended up all in before the flop and turned over AA, and KK. I was pretty much drawing dead if I had stayed in the hand.

Moral of the story: If you have a large/medium stack, try not put all or most of your chips in the middle before the flop with AK if you can avoid it. If you're short stacked, it really doesn't apply....I'll always get all in and hope for the best...there's not much you can do in that situation.

Dyno_Don

You've got that right about the AK hand being over-played by most players, but what's worse is when many players will go all in on AX in their hand.

Of course I usually fold with a J10 or Q10 when someone goes all in. But when I see they go all in on an A2, and to get nothing on the board to boot, that drives me nuts, because my 10 card will usually come out on the table when I don't call.

These kind of plays by other players are usually during the first hour of a tournament, so all we can do is hang on and try to double-up on some of these fools.

I read your post beaston on the kind of hand you had verses the other players, that would be a hard hand to fold with all of the outs you had mentioned.