AK Strategy first hand in tourney?

[GaF]

You're UTG with AKo in the first hand of a tourney (tonights $100 buy in $100,000 gtd on Mansion) ...... How do you play it, post flop, against one opponent when you missed? I almost always make a continuation bet, but seldom seem to make it work ..... here I was reraised and folded - what would people have done differently? What other options were there? Only other option I can see is to check fold, but that just seems so weak (but less expensive ;) )..... I'm happy with my check raise pre flop - I'm not interested in a UTG raise to try and win blinds of 30!!!! Being first hand of the tourney, I have NO information on any of my opponents.... HAND HISTORY DETAILS ***** Hand History for Game 20809022 ***** 057 $100,000 Guaranteed Hand start time: 2007-02-28 20:02:06 Seat 5 is the button Total number of players: 9 Seat 1: canaryace1(2,500.00) Seat 2: MedusaTouch(2,500.00) Seat 3: SnusOchMus(2,500.00) Seat 4: poker dog x(2,500.00) Seat 5: MarinaY(2,500.00) Seat 6: Sofia_27(2,500.00) Seat 7: ve6ticata(2,500.00) Seat 8: Telepe(2,500.00) Seat 9: apprentice(2,500.00) Current Number of Players: 9 apprentice start position: 2,500.00 Telepe start position: 2,500.00 ve6ticata start position: 2,500.00 Sofia_27 start position: 2,500.00 MarinaY start position: 2,500.00 poker dog x start position: 2,500.00 SnusOchMus start position: 2,500.00 MedusaTouch start position: 2,500.00 canaryace1 start position: 2,500.00 (Sofia_27) posts small blind (10) ve6ticata posts big blind (20) Telepe is dealt down [Ah Kc] Telepe calls (20) apprentice folds canaryace1 calls (20) MedusaTouch folds SnusOchMus folds poker dog x folds MarinaY raises to (60) (Sofia_27) folds ve6ticata times out and folds Telepe raises to (230) canaryace1 folds MarinaY calls (230) flop: [6c 9d Qs] Telepe bets (300) MarinaY raises to (680) Telepe folds MarinaY is refunded (380) MarinaY wins (1110) MarinaY mucks canaryace1 end position: 2,480.00 MedusaTouch end position: 2,500.00 SnusOchMus end position: 2,500.00 poker dog x end position: 2,500.00 MarinaY end position: 3,080.00 Sofia_27 end position: 2,490.00 ve6ticata end position: 2,480.00 Telepe end position: 1,970.00 apprentice end position: 2,500.00 Hand end time: 2007-02-28 20:03:43

[spireitedaz]

Re: AK Strategy first hand in tourney? Here's my five pence worth for what it's worth. Never played in a biggish tourney, like this but I'd have just flat called and seen a flop, played it like a drawing hand. You said you didn't want to raise UTG to win blinds of 30. Therefore surely a raise to 230 to win a few extra chips at this point of tournament is hardly worth it. If he'd reraised then I assume you'd have folded ? By end of hand you'd lost 20% of stack with Ace high. Saying that I make Malcolm (the Rock) Harwood look like a maniac :rollin Doubt this had worked on this occasion, but I've been having more luck with checking the flop (when I miss with AK) and betting the turn (after I still miss) and taking pot uncontested. (Not in focus games though :loon )