How to deal with 3 of a suit on the flop?

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I know that 5.2% of flops should contain 3 of a suit but what do you do when this 5% starts being 80%? hands like AA KK AK QQ and the like start being almost wothless if neither one of them do not match a suit on the flop. It doesnt do this 10 times in a row but it will do it 4 outta 5, skip a few hands and start doing it again. Even if the flop is 3 of a suit 4 out of 10 times, it is still +34.8% higher.
How do you play when you have KK and 3 other people call preflop and most of the time all 3 have an Ace in their hand and board flops the last Ace 30% of the time or more when you do not have an Ace?
I am fairly new at the game but since I started learning about the percentage certain cards should flop, I have kept a record of flops and I guess I really don't understand how flops can run in bunches like 4 outta 5 times, stop for a few hands then do it again. Does not this Random Number Generator thingy really work?
All in all it is hard for me to get a strategy by looking at my hand and deciding if it is worth playing or not when the flop percentages of certain hands run 100's of percents above normal for stretches. Very hard for a new player to learn the game. I started playing poker for the first time in Jan of this year and I only play in tournaments. I have won 10 tournaments (most tournament fields were around 300) and have cashed in another 12. I play on NLOP CardPlayer Poker. I even got to 30th place on a Carbon Poker $50 freeroll with 2600+ players (won a whole $.30. ha ha) Grand total of $427.80. My cost $0.00 That just proves that anybody can win a tournament and like the guy says in the forum " a broke clock is right twice a day"
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How to deal with 3 of a suit on the flop is quite tricky question...it depends of the stage of the tournament and the number of players you play against at that specific moment. And the 3rd rule (but not worth less) is your possition at the table. Everything in poker is about these 3 things. Your profit tells me that you already know an aswear to this question but its nice if you want to know what other players think about it :) If you have KK, flop 3 of a suit and no draw for you its always questionable is your opponent chasing a draw ace high :/..in that situation is always important to consider his moves preflop, and that always help me to decide how to play my next move. In any case if you decide to play, this is poker, there's no certain things and you gotta gamble :) I realize that you just have a bad run at the time and i truly hope that your experience with this problem should get better and get closer to mighty probability that we all depends of :) cheers!
 
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lol, last night and last week I was knocked out of the 50 seat to 75k GTD with this same situation. Last night went like this I had QQ it was first round 10/20 I raise to 60 an the CO, BTN calls and BB calls. flop comes Q-4-8 all spades, one guy had AJ spades and other 2-3 of spades lol.

Two weeks ago I flopped top set of 9's with all 3 suites on flop lost to AJ of spades there too..

I should probably be able to get away from top sets in these spots but 1.) its a free roll so they could be playing any 2 cards 2.) they may have an over pair like AA or KK with the A or K of spades.

So honestly I'll be looking forward to here lots of views on how to play 3 suited flop
 
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If you had suited cards and flopped a flush, how would you play? Think in those terms. If someone leads, you'd call or raise. If you were first to act, you'd check most of the time, hoping someone else fired a bet at it so you could build a bigger pot by calling or raising.
 
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