[sherbert]

Well, I can live with the view that it's somewhere between me and Aces - sounds like a fair consensus. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]I also think Guy's point about short vs deep stacks is bang on. The last point I'd make is that while some of the Kings' equity is backdoor - hence better to be playing short stacked - a fair amount of the Aces' equity will fall into this category as well. But yes - unless you are very short stacked, the Kings do have to hit the flop in some shape or form if they are going to continue.
Another point I'd like some views on - setting aside whether or not the original poster should have raised in this instance - is, is it bad or good poker to fold to a raise having made a raise here? I suppose the hot term for this is meta game considerations, but I am always extremely reluctant to fold once I've made a raise - unless it's been reraised and reraised again or there seems to be a very strong likelihood of it becoming an all-in scramble.
In other words, I'm prepared to take a little bit the worst of it preflop even knowing that I'm 99 per cent up against aces, because, a) I hope to play the flop correctly - so I escape with minimum damage if I miss and I hope to get the aces' stack if I connect; and b) it gives the impression if I fold to the reraise that I can be run over.
Thoughts?