AKs 4B pot BB

[JonBonJovi]

Hey thanks guys, appreciate all the comments. This might be a stupid question but can I ask why i shouldn't 3B w/ AK/AKs here? I'm not disagreeing with you in any way but would like to understand the reasoning rather than just blindly following your instructions every time a situation like this arises. Thanks again.

[BorisTheSpider]

Hey thanks guys, appreciate all the comments. This might be a stupid question but can I ask why i shouldn't 3B w/ AK/AKs here? I'm not disagreeing with you in any way but would like to understand the reasoning rather than just blindly following your instructions every time a situation like this arises. Thanks again.

3betting here just bloats the pot when you hold ace-high at the moment. There's tons of flops that oop in a multi-way pot, you're just going to want to check-fold.

IP against like one opponent, you can 3bet for value even though you won't make a hand on the flop like 2/3 of the time, since neither will they, so you're just putting dead money in the pot to collect with a cbet a lot of the time, but OOP this is a much worse spot, especially when you might end up with more than one caller going to the flop.

On the plus side positionally, if you do just call here you're in great relative position - on the flop, when it most likely checks to the CO you'll get to see what the button and SB do before you act, so although you're OOP in absolute terms, in relative terms your position is good to play a multi way pot.

The other thing is that squeezing into like 3 players here looks so strong, it actually kind of overreps your hand even though it is really good, and I doubt you'll get called by much worse very often.

Although I think I'd nearly always call and nearly never 3bet here, it actually took me a while to put this into words, so I'm interested to hear other peoples input on the why.