AK preflop with two raises in front, no limit tournament

Game type: No limit tournament
Your image: Aggressive
Stage of tourney: Middle stages, about 200 remain out of over 500
Avg stack: 8000
Misc notes:
Your hand: A♥K♠

The Setup: Preflop, Player A folds and Player B limps, and then all hell breaks loose. Player C makes a reasonable raise to 600 and then Player D pushes all in about as quick as one can push. You have AK and calling will cost you about half of your chips. What’s your play?

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John B.

I’m folding. Someone surely has a pair. I’d rather hold on to my nice chip lead and not get tangled up in this obvious mess with this over-rated drawing hand.

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Raller-V

could not have said it better my self….
FOLD… you are for sure not in front on this one…

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Scott

To early in the tourney to take what is probably a coin flip. Definitely fold.

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Mike

I thank the lord I was not sitting in seat B and have cash invested in pot already, and fold only after pretending to think about calling for a minute. Too many chances to get crushed by a pocket pair or outdrawn here. Plus I have nothing invested in the pot so it costs me nothing to fold it.

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Bill

Pretty clear fold. Continue picking up the small pots and avoid the big gambles and we’ll be fine.

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Joe

First off, thanks to the DHQ staff for a great site. I don’t get to play as much as I’d like with my schedule, but I like looking at these hands to keep sharp.

The only sane choice is to fold here. I can’t see how anyone can consider calling. Too many people really like their hands, and it’s stupid to risk half your stack halfway through the tourney. Let this one go before it gets ugly.

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Mary

Fold. Thanks for the easy question.

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Kyle

Fold. No need to repeat what everyone else has said. I think this is an important time to talk about playing AK. I rarely play AK preflop in an all in situation especially when my stack or my opponents stack is reasonable compared to the blinds. It’s a drawing hand. I would much rather play 10s for all my chips than AK. AK is essentially ace high. It isn’t a hand unless it is helped by the board. Granted if I had 10s here I’m folding those as well.

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Gsxraddict

Im not folding in this spot, I’ll gamble to win the tournament, unless they have aces or kings you’re even money.

And its possible he has AK KQ or AQ…. its probably a coinflip.

I’ll raise to isolate and put the big decision on the original raiser.

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