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I don't know about that but man o man it would have been nice if the river would have brought a 10 of spades... But thats not really here nor there

y the other guy had it

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I think the most important lesson here is that you need to follow Bankroll management. If you are playing with your entire stack at one table it does not matter how perfectly you play because one bad beat - or one cooler is enough to go broke.

Lets say you sit down and have AA in the big blind. Before you 2 people go all-in for their entire stacks... you call. You play completely correctly since you have 70% equity vs 2 players with random card combinations. Therefore a call is definitely +EV. As it turns out the MP midstack had pushed over a loose UTG raiser + caller with QQ and the larger stackin the button who has you covered had re-pushed with KK. Neither of them played wrong either.

You call and lose when the bigger stack hits a King on the turn. But hey you had 67% equity against their cards - which isn't 100% so of course you can lose. In fact you do so 33% of the time.

In the longrun you are definitely winning though. But for you there is no long run since you played above your Bankroll - and are now broke - without having made any mistakes except for playing above your bankroll.

Had you played with 20-50 stacks - you would simply re-buy and keep on playing - knowing that situations like these are normal in poker

when KK running into AA becomes that common in poker, perhaps i will stop ;).

Originally posted by chenny8888
when KK running into AA becomes that common in poker, perhaps i will stop ;).

Ive actually lost 6 Stacks in AA vs KK situations in the course of a 2K hand session once

only 6 times? that's not common at all!