Re: KK in NL cash
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<font color="black">Preflop:</font> K[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] K[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] ($0.75, 5 players)
UTG folds, CO folds, BTN folds, <font color="red">SB raises to $1.50</font>, <font color="red">Hero raises to $6.50</font>, <font color="red">SB raises to $19.50</font>, <font color="red">Hero raises all in to $76.95</font>, SB calls all in for $34.70
<font color="black">Results:</font>
SB had A[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] T[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] (a pair of Jacks)
Hero had K[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] K[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] (two pair, Kings and Jacks) and won $105.40
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That hand was blind versus blind, and the player with KK pushed rather than calling all-in. It takes much less strength to raise blind versus blind, so there is much less room to find out that KK might be behind enough to fold.
It can easily be right to fold KK preflop, particularly in NL $100 and NL $200 online games where the players are not very aggressive and not very imaginative. E.g., UTG at a full table raises, you reraise in middle position, UTG pushes giving you lousy odds. In a similar sample to the OP's, I found only AA when I called all-in with KK. Being willing to fold KK is not exploitable if you will often use the same betting pattern with AA, and of course you will call with AA. Nevertheless, you will find plenty of unthinking reactions from people who think folding KK is heresy, or who assume that the same folks who believe AT is a great hand at NL $25 are playing NL $100. (Some are, but they aren't as common.) Folding KK preflop is not necessarily wrong; it's just unpopular.
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