no reads on villian, he just sat down.

Absolute Poker
No Limit Holdem Ring game
Blinds: $0.25/$0.50
5 players
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Stack sizes:
Hero: $50.07
CO: $118.05
Button: $256.07
SB: $11.48
BB: $81.50

Pre-flop: (5 players) Hero is UTG with A K
Hero raises to $2, 2 folds, SB calls, BB raises to $5.5, Hero calls, SB folds.

Flop: J 7 9 ($13, 2 players)
BB bets $7.5, Hero raises to $23, BB raises all-in $76, Hero calls all-in $21.57.
Uncalled bets: $31.43 returned to BB.

If your gonna raise half of your reamaining stack on the flop you mays well go all-in when you raised unless you were trying to convey strength by raising smaller.

Button: $256.07

At the .25/.50 level, when the buyin is capped at $50. Not too shabby.

I'd comment that it's unlikely that the hero is f-ing around on this flop with AK or a hand worse than yours. If you think that he might fold if you push or raise, then push or raise. If you wanna gamble, put your chips in there. The texture of this flop is not a friendly one and often times, your opponents will not be folding becuase they have caught a large piece of it.

You can push here, but you're probably taking the worst of it (unless he has QQ) since you might be drawing to the naked flush draw.

Once you raise, you're obviously committed so you just gotta go with it.

For some reason that looked cooler when I did it...

the buy in at AP is doubled, so max buy in at .25 .50 is 100$. that makes 256 a lot less impressive, although still obviously good.