playing a penny table while at work and then.....

no matter how you try and play this...he isnt gonna fold trip K's at this level... just UL...

Don't mean to sound like a jerk...but if losing a $2.80 pot to a legitimate hand makes you sick, this isn't a good hobby for you.

This is one where you have to be glad the Ks wasn't on the board improving you to a nut flush with more in your stack. Can't blame villain for staying in the hand. He had many outs to a full house right from the flop.

Sorry 'bout the loss. Those kind of decent showdown always leave marks.

You got all of your money in with the best hand, I would have been more worried about losing to a flush than a FH.

However, there is one thing that would have obviously prevented this - in the future I think you should be more cautious of calling 6x's the BB raises wih AJ. This is a vulnerable hand and will often get you into spots like this when you're in after calling a big preflop raise.

Good luck, have fun and be safe out there!

also consider that other than the K, any 3, any Q or any 10 would still give him the best hand at the river. so with all hindsight put aside up to 10 cards to win , he was possibly over 18% to hit best hand on the river, at the turn.

What did you put this player on? Would it have changed your play at all if you had read his K K ? just some questions maybe you should ask yourself in hindsight. Better luck next time!

Not sure it's quite that 'obvious' Tim. In a penny game a lot of the x-blinds rules etc are out the window. 6-max table, chip leader had folded pf. SB (hero) called with BB left to act. Not many in a penny game will fold an AJs in late pos. After all, it was only 11 cents to call. Where a lot of AJ players get into trouble is a re-raise pf on a suited Ace.

Hero flopped the nut str8 and made a slightly higher than pot bet. Not a bad move to push out a heart flush chaser.

Villain raised. Would you fold the nut str8 to what looks like a draw or set? Hero's re-raise to all-in was as good a move as possible. Calling villain's raise would pot commit our hero anyway, so get it all in and make them pay to draw. If it was a flush draw, you'd never get a river bet from them if it didn't hit.

Another problem in a penny game is that a LOT of players still wouldn't fold a flush draw to a push. There's just not that much at stake to get the adrenalin rush of the win.

Sure, pennies is a lot to a player if it's the last of their BR. For some, it is. If that were the case, the money should be on a limit table, not a NL table. NL invites disaster. Grinding out a limit table can keep a limited BR out of trouble. You can't often double or triple up, instantly, but you can't lose it all on ONE card either.

Just my 2 cents, on a penny table ....

should of folded to the preflop raise....A J even suited still sucks