How can you make this call and sleep at night?

[Talking Poker]

Well, both.... but typically, the latter. That takes precidence.

[Zybomb]

Making bets in relation to the pot is key -- but YES stack size sometimes is taken into consideration when betting. And betting a smaller % of the pot which is a large % of the pot, can be a correct play. But.... he had more chips than you? How is 900 a threat to his stack (after calling 1500 preflop?)

You raise 2.5 BBs with AK (Id prefer 3 but I guess this is ok)

You bet the flop almost 50% less than what you raised preflop? This is never ok

there's over 5:1 on his call here, and he had stack odds... it's not as bad of a call as you think....more specifically its a bad bet by you

But regardless it's a freeroll

And what do you mean you were doing good with 7.5K and blinds 300/600, you only had a little over 10 BBs, while you arent technically 'short yet' I wouldn't imagine this is good(unless the avg stack was around this amount/lower and blinds moved quickly)

[kkirk1329]

i was right around the avg stack at the time, and i meant that i had been playing well up to that point. I was refferring to the call he makes preflop, 1500 with 34? i mean come on i may have played horribly after the flop but how do you make this call preflop, he had around 600 more chips than me so it wasnt like he could afford to play every hand pf.

[Zybomb]

sure he made a bad call preflop, but you didn't make him pay for it and allowed him to suck out with poor post flop betting

[kkirk1329]

WHOA WHOA WHOA, LET IT BE KNOWN THAT I HAVE JUST RECIEVED MY FIRST + REP!!