Poker is sex

[Talking Poker]

You're missing the math. Let's look at a simple example, and see if it helps:

Blinds are 10/20. You each have 1000 stacks. You have AA, which we all agree is the best hand.

Opponent min raises to 40. You min reraise to 60. Opponent calls.

Now stop. You just got him to put in an extra 20 chips with a hand worse than yours. So by your logic, he made a mistake, right? Wrong! YOU just made the mistake. And here's why:

Before you reraised, there was already 60 in the pot. Your raise made it 100 and you were asking opponent to call only 20 more chips. you were giving him 5:1 odds! Opponent is correct to call for this price with any two cards (and with most hands, even if he knew you had AA!), and that's not even factoring in the implied odds of when he flops a set on you and you give him the rest of your chips with your overpair, etc. Get it?

In your example, yeah, he got really lucky when he put all his chips in with QQ, but on't say you played it beautifully, because you didn't. You made a mistake preflop. You gave him a nice price to see a flop with KJ. With the range of hands he should have put you on, he's correct to call there, even though he ended up only having one overcard.

Also, and this is something that no one has mentioned yet.... Let's say opponent turned over A2 (and he certainly could have had an Ace). Would you still think that you played it correctly? Would you have posted this hand and would you still like your flop play? Somehow, I doubt it.