what am i doing wrong? knocked out by AA 4 times today..

[gunbuster]

Note, I didn't have AA, but 4 times in various tourneys today, I happened to be the one that would raise into AA and get either busted out, or lose a big chunk of my stack. Twice I folded after a big reraise.

In almost all cases, the guy w/ AA limped pre-flop, or at worse, put in a very small raise, relative to the blinds. Sure, they're being deceptive, but now it's gotten me so frazzled today that I feel like there will be AA every time I bet into a pot....

[gunbuster]

incidentally, it's not like I'm raising into AA w/ garbage either. I may have AQo in MP w/ a few limpers, and the flop w/ come Qxx, or I get a cheap look at the flop w/ PP like 10-10, and the flop comes rainbow a/ cards all below mine.

Is it bad luck, or am I missing some clues here? Problem w/ NLHE, is it only takes one mistake like this to bust me out of a tourney. I'm trying to play my overpair aggressively, and run into much bigger overpair that limp pre-flop.

[jim grass]

Deception in my opinion is vital to pot and no limit.
As well it nots unusual to have odd occurences.