Hi Rick. It was great meeting you at the convention.

I certainly do not want to get you any more upset than you allready are but if we can look at that hand a little closer please?
It is no fun when your AA gets busted but it happens all of the time. Pocket Rockets is the best starting hand but it is beatable because it is only 1 pair and you only have 2 cards that can improve the hand not considering drawing into a straight or a flush or the board pairing and that will happen too.

You said your AA vs JJ but that is just half of the story. There were three people in the hand. You made a nice pre flop raise of about 400 and you got two callers: your AA vs. GamingOre & my JJ. The flop came xxK and GamingOre was holding K9 giving him top pair on the board. You went ALL IN and we both called you. The TURN came 9 giving GamingOre 2 pair and your AA was busted with only 2 OUTs unless the board paired. At that point you and I both had the exact same 2 outs unless the board were to pair up giving you the win. I thought I was gone but hit the 2 outer the miracle river J.

Now I can not tell you why I was even in the hand because I should have folded post flop to your all in bet but I called without giving it much thought and got lucky on the river. I guess that is my point Rick. As you stated, you have been playing this game a long time and I have too. The combination of GOOD & LUCKY wins games. We can blame the random card generator but these things happen all of the time. This particular hand was the turning point of the whole game.
Hey... I got lucky! That's Poker. See ya next week... your time is coming soon I am sure.