Ak

[SirFWALGMan]

I want to hear peoples thoughts about limping with AK and why we do not do this, but we have no problem limping with 89s or something. In the purest sense AK is a drawing hand, not a made hand. Albeit not even a great drawing hand since it only has one side to draw to. It is however far from a made hand. I always raise 3-4xBB with AK but alot of times end up folding it on the flop or overplaying it and costing myself some money. If I limp with it then its easier to get away from when the flop misses. It becomes like a blind hand that misses.

The only reason I see for raising AK pre-flop is limiting the field, and making it more likely that you are going to win IF your A or K hits on the flop. You can worry a little less about a3o beating you with a bad AJ3 flop.