Ok, the knocking on wood didn't help. A whole lotta nothing for hours (including getting AA on 3 consecutive hands and netting a whopping $2 from it) and then 2 buy-ins gone in 3 minutes. The first one was boat under boat, not much can be said there. But the second one has me rather confused. Tell me what you guys think.

My hand: KK.

Guy to my right raises $0.60
I reraise to $1.2
He 3-bets to $5.4

This is boat/overboat guy again, but I had just moved to this table so no real reads yet. I put him on AA/QQ.. maybe AK/JJ. My stack is $19.90, his is higher.

I call.

Pot: $11
Flop: AA7.

Hm. I'm thinking about card likelyhoods now. I scratch AA off the list. So that leaves QQ/JJ and maybe AK, but I mark down AK as a little less likely b/c of the two Aces on the flop.

He checks. I check.

Pot: $11
Turn: 7.

He raises $4.

Hmf. Could be trying to steal the pot.. or slowplaying his AK.

I call.

Pot: $19
River: 2

He pushes. I have $10.5 left.

So I'm thinking.. I might be beat here.. but QQ/JJ, I have those beat. And I only need to call for 25% of the pot. Semi-crying call so to speak.

I call. He flips AK. Goddamn lucky bastard!

But that was my reasoning during the hand being played. Right after, I start beating myself up over it. That basically I neglected to take into account that he sees the flop too! So he sees 2 Aces.. is he going to get aggressive if he doesn't have them? So that the $4 call was maybe excusable, but that calling the push wasn't.

And, in retrospect, maybe it would have been best to raise the flop after he checked.. a call or push would then have told me I was beat. But I'm still a bit lost, because the sheer size of the pot seems to justify crying calls.

Or just push preflop so that this basically becomes a bad beat?.. if I could do it again, probably $4 raise on the flop, then fold to a push and check/fold after a call.. but still not sure about all this..

So yeah.. what do you guys think?..