Why does it happen too often?

[Eric Salvador]

Feel lucky that it's happen so frequently because in poker the numbers always even out. You due for a nice run of not having KK meet they're Prefolp Kryptonite. Use these things as a positive. Look into advancing the mental side of your game to prepare for variance.

 

[BilNicholson]

It doesn't seem to happen too much in y opinion.

 

[always2away]

This question brings up unhappy memories.

A few years back I beat 5K players in a step tourney, and then 5K players again to win a $5K buyin to an early NAPT tournament held at the Venetian in Las Vegas. If I remember correctly, there was $4.8 M in the prize pool.

I had been having a decent run on the first day and had about an hour till the day concluded when I picked KK. I was 2 seats ahead of the button and with all limpers I pre-flop raised 9x BB. Got two takers. Flop was nothing rainbow and I pushed half my stack in. One fold and one call. 4th street was blank and the balance went in the middle.

The opponent was Fabrice Soulier. He puzzled it out for a couple of minutes, shrugged his shoulders and shoved. Then he turned over AA, which he had slow played all through.

I did not catch a K on the river.

 

[Pulsar]

With me just yesterday, this happened in pokerstars KK vs AA! I'm not angry, smiling with their RNG!

 

[Kingpoetmusic]

This scenario does happen to people some more than others. I've had KK and my opponent has had AA probably close to 20 times in the past. It's just an unfortunate situation preflop and I know that I'm not folding the KK preflop there is just no way I could.

 

[darpblog]

Against 5 opponents chances are 2.40% or a little below 1 in 40. Against 8 opponents 3.85% or a little below 1 in 25.

 

[Smokewood]

or he just bluffed your socks off....

Poker is an ART not a SCIENCE

 

[terryk]

Great players make great folds.

 

[danoscar]

The hard part is finding the crystal ball that tells you what cards that guy has. I think we can all share stories about what you are saying. ... but not maybe 100s of times.

 

[freestocks]

You know, it seems like that happens a lot. If you think about it, those are the hands worth betting it all. Sevens vs. sixes happen as often but you're less likely to be all in and notice how unfair it seems.

 

[Empress]

Great players make great folds.

Absolutely!

I've had my fair share of getting QQ or KK and opponent would have AA -- or even vice versa. I've both won & lost having the AA, depending on the community cards. These kind of "show downs" do seem to happen a lot more frequently online.

 

[makisaa]

Impressive to happen 100 times. I think that both AA and KK are just couples and need attention when you get them, because they can leed to big profits, but also to big problems!

 

[Sil3ntness]

If you play a lot of poker hands it may seem that KK vs AA happens a lot, but it's all variance related. The result of getting coolered with Kings vs Aces lingers over the fact that you probably haven't been in that situation in the previous 500+ hands.

Kings is a very hard hand to get away from preflop versus aggression unless you truly know that the other person is only capable of 3 betting / 4 betting Aces.