My 2 pair keeps getting busted by wired sets in Ring games

Aside from betting less aggressively, is there any way to avoid this?

I am newish to ring games (I usually avoid them)

Is it just bad luck? Its happened 3 times today!

I will give you an example: .2-.5 microlimit

Hero: k-10 d one from button raises to .15
Villian is dealer

two players to the flop:
Flop comes: kh 10s 4d
hero bet pot: .30
villian calls
turn 2s:
hero bets .50
villian calls
river: 7h
hero bets: .70
villian calls

villian shows 44
hero mucks k-10


There it is. And it happened again and again...
How do I avoid that at my current limit?

This guy had been playing like a maniac, so I thought I was exploiting his A-k or something.

But instead I lost a big pot.

Ideas? Advice?

This hand was just a sick situation, you were never folding a flopped 2 pr, and the vill was never folding a flopped set. Any form of ring HE, especially limit, is basically a crap shoot ( why do you think happy hour on FT is only for limit games ) which is why I don't play it. If you want to build a bankroll playing low limit, learn to play Razz, at least you know when your ahead or behind and your draw possibilities so you can push or fold on the cheap.

Just a cooler. Bad luck. If you're not spraying chips like a fire hydrant in this situation to all but the nittiest, then you're playing it wrong.