The strength of AK depends on stack size.
Good morning everyone, AK is a hand whose strength depends on the size of your stack, the deeper you are, the less strength your AK will have. in cash game, which in my opinion is the hand that loses the most money in cash. What do you mean? With AK in theory and in practice almost 100% of the fild will play 3bet and when you hit a flop with A or K and X X, you C-bet and in this preflop pot situation with 3bet players will respect a lot and fold and when they play call or raise it is very likely that they have trips or two pair and in the best scenario they have a straight or flush draw. I usually leave my cash game hands under observation at pokerstars and then I analyze the players and making notes and the hand that I see most players losing 100 blinds and with AK, the villain calls the 3bet with 22, 33, 44, 55, 66 ,77 and hits the A 2 8 flop, the guy with AK, thinks he is much more is practically lost, not counting the hands that are AK vs KK and AK vs AA, there's only a lot of AK strength in Mtts and when you have less than 35 blinds in my opinion. theory, you shouldn't bet 100 blinds, with top pair, even in a 3bet pre flop pot, I think the correct thing is to hit A or K flop, c-bet 1/3 , turn can vary low frequency check, or c-bet between 40% and 80% and river check, but poker is a very complex game and there is no 100% guaranteed income.
