Hey all,

I have been playing steadily for the past year and a half. I have slowly been making my way up limits. This hand came up last night. It was a 3/5 NL cash game at the local casino. Now here is the problem with my casino, the highest limit hold 'em used to be 20/40, then it was cut to 10/20 and now that game is rarely going, so the highest is 5/10. The reason I bring this up is that I am mainly a limit player, but 5/10 just doesnt do it for me, so I just switched last night to NL game.

Here is the scenario, I am in middle position and get dealt A/K offsuit. I pop it the normal raise at the table to $25. It folds around to the button who is a bit LAG. He reraises to $110. It folds to me, I think about it and then repop it to $150 more, back to him, he asks how much i have left, which was a little over $300, and then he puts me all in. He has me well covered.

As I am thinking about what to do, he tells me he knows what I have, I ask him, ok what do I have? He says queens. He said that obviously I do not have aces or I would have insta called, and he has kings, so it is highly unlikely that I do. As I am thinking about this, I start to wonder aloud that if he has kings, why didnt he try and suck me in more if it was heads up instead of pushing. The player to my left then blurts out "Because he has Kings". Well, I thought about it a bit more then I mucked and I have been kicking myself for it ever since.

Here are the reasons I folded,

1) Isnt the saying that the fourth raise is Aces?
2) Dont most players over play Big Slick?
3) The guy to left that blurted out "Because he has Kings" influenced my decision, he seemed to be a solid player
4) It was my first time playing a live NL cash game and I didnt want to look like a rookie over playing a hand


All that being said, I think I made the wrong decision. Can you give me any insight?

P.S. Of course that hand shook my confidence and I way over played Big Slick about 20 minutes later to lose the rest of my stack.