UB $5 SNG. I'm against a fairly tough and aggressive player. We both have nearly identical chip stacks at the end, him a couple hundred ahead.

When heads up and with similar stack sizes, I sometimes like to limp in with some moderate hands as well as monster hands (I'm usually raising 2.5-3x BB though). I'm pretty sure he caught on to the limping with moderate hands part. I never showed down my hand when I had a monster and limped.

I limp in with KK. He min-raises me, I raise 2x that back, he goes over the top, and I push all-in. He calls and I'm delighted. Then he turns over, you guessed it, AA! I couldn't believe the terrible luck I had there. I'd need a miracle king!

The flop comes 4, 6... KING! I'm in the lead and now he needs a REAL miracle. The turn comes a blank. The river? AN ACE! I couldn't believe it!

It was bad enough we're headsup and I have KK while he has AA. Then I get lucky and make trips. Then he gets EVEN luckier and hits his trips with two cards to come!

AGH!!!

Wecome to MY world, slick... The land of the 1 and 2 outters... Sorry if some of my horrible luck rubbed off on you...

On another note... would any of you actually have folded KK here? It never crossed my mind. I always play KK like I have the best hand when we're short-handed and ESPECIALLY heads-up. On a full table... I'd still probably play it's the best hand. Let's say someone raises, I re-raise, and am re-raised back. I'd probably call and see a flop. If it isn't something like 3 suited cards (not of my suit) or an A, I'd probably check-raise a large amount (all-in if short-stacked, of course).

Even if I called here, I would have hit trips on the flop. I probably would have check-called him to the river, letting him waste away his chips to my monster. Even if he hit an A, he would have needed AA to beat me, which I would never put him on when I have trip Kings. So really... there was no way I could have done anything in this hand. Even if I pushed all-in on the flop, he'd probably call with his overpair.

Unless I folded pre-flop...

Is it possible to fold KK pre-flop heads-up? I would be afraid the gods of poker would strike me dead.

With better players, I usually assume a re-raise all-in (unless shortstacked) would not mean AA or KK. Why would you want everyone to fold to your monster hand? Maybe AK or QQ at best would justify the all-in. So easy call if someone pushes all-in and you have KK in that situation.

Now with the less experienced players... some of them will do a HUGE raise or HUUUUGE re-raise (all-in) with AA or KK just hoping to be callled. They must feel disappointed when they only pick up 80 chips with their monster.