Turned top pair out of position on paired board, NL MTT

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Game type: $50 freezeout, PokerStars
Stage of tourney: Mid stages
Your image: TAG
Opponent’s image: No strong read
Your hand: A♣K♦

The setup: You’ve been staying away from large pots and building your stack with small stabs when the following hand comes up. You get AKo in the small blind and the table folds to the button, who raises to 3x.

You elect to just call, and the flop comes:

9♣Q♥Q♣

You check and your opponent checks behind. You turn the A♦.

It’s your action. What’s your play?

If you lead and are raised, what’s your plan?

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black fair

Deja vu anyone?

I just don’t get how we can flat call with AK in the SB facing a button raise when the whole table folds.

Anyway, I’d lead for 1100 and check-call any river.

Checking here may induce a bluff but I think a lead here will get called by flush and straight draws as well as pockets that may check through.

Once that bet is extracted I think the best play is to check-call the river in order to keep the pot small.

If our lead gets raised I don’t struggle too long to find a fold.

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samo

Voted check-call. A lead is vulnerable to a c-r and with only a pair on a scary board I’d likely fold. Without a strong read on the v, a c-r play by the hero seems risky. A check-call allows the v to bet if they have a pp, an Ace, or a draw. Otherwise, I don’t think they are calling our lead.

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Pete

Check/raise. They’re going to bet this card almost every time when you check to them so do that. Then I think there’s good value in a raise since your line looks bluffy and they’re going to have something like a weaker ace that will call this a lot. I think the only hands they’re likely to check back here are pocket pairs, most of which would have bet that flop I expect

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_CityBorn_

Im with samo. Check call allows you to extract value from a bluff or semi-bluff, while also minimizing losses the times villain has a queen.

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alekhine11

TAG ——->I bet/fold.

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Mario

Obvious check behind. At this stage first of all is protecting the stack.
And try to imagine you are BU holding AQo. Would you rise that flop? Or trying to trap your opponent?
Definitely check.

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Julian

Check, the turn, and bet the river.
If you check here and bet on the river, it will look like you have air, and you will get called down very light, by very weak aces, and underpairs.
If you check the turn, and he bet, call, and try n check it down, if he bets again on the river, you are going to have a tough decision on your hands. You are going to have to make read your opponent well, but you are gonna have to call a lot with moderate sized bets here, against most opponents, just becaause u played the hand so weakly throughough. If you played it more aggresivly on the turn, it would be a lot easier to fold to heavy betting on the river.

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