Per Scott Fischman, how often an ace flops

Someone wrote to Scott F in his FishTank article in CardPlayer asking how often an ace flops in a NLHE tournament. Scott replied, if you hold JJ, QQ, or KK, an ace will flop 97.5% of the time, and if you hold AK or AQ, an ace will flop 3.5% of the time. LOL (it was obv a joke, but I found it

If I'm the one holding KK, he's not far off. And I never find it to be

In a cash game if you hold A-Q, another player holds A-J, and yet another player holds A-K an Ace will hit the flop 100% of the time just so that you can lose as much as possible.

If you hold A-A an Ace will NEVER hit the flop, ever, never, ever, never.

Howard Beale

Why would you want it to?

So you can get cleaned out by the guy who called your pre-flop raise with 8-6s, and who bluffs with a push on the flop, and catches runner-runner for the flush.

That adds up to 101%. What an idiot.

The real question is, if you hold AQ, how often is the flop K-high? In my experience the answer is about 70%.

Only 70%. You must be running better than me. Well, there was my last hand in the 180 last night where an ace actually hit the flop, but AJ got me after we went all in and he rivered a jack. At least I can get away from the king flop.