Sure, we all remember the hero calls - the hands that doubled us up, vanquished opponents and thrust us to the final tables. But too often we forget about the moments where they didn’t win – and that’s a mistake.
Any time you get away from a losing hand before the showdown, you’re ahead. That’s easy to do when you’re holding garbage. But when you’ve got a great hand – one of those really tasty, once in a blue moon everything-looks-great-but something-just-doesn’t-feel-right hands - that’s a moment where you can invite greatness into your game. And that's a moment where poker is upside-down, you're just hoping to have the worse hand!
Check out Romanello's great fold at the top of the page and you'll see him muck pocket jacks on a A-J-K-10-10 board. As crazy as it may look, he took the right decision - Geller, his opponent, was holding K-K for a better full-house.
This is probably still one of the best folds ever seen at the WSOP. Honestly, how many players would fold in that spot? We’re not saying you have to fold your J-J on this board, obviously there must have been some history between this two players and some metagame involved.
“I wistfully make a hero-fold with the third nuts”
A little closer to home, Hall of Famer
Chivalrousgent also made a great fold recently in a live game, folding a full-house against quads. He has kindly given us some insight on this great fold in
Raise Your Game where he explains all the metagame surrounding that particular hand.
Read the article here.
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Now to all the maniacs out there, repeat after me: ‘Yes, folding can be good, folding can be good, folding can be good!’
And to rest of you nits and rocks out there, send your best fold story to
news@pkr.com - (with the hand history if it was on PKR, if possible) and a brief explanation about your feelings, intuition and analysis that enabled you to avoid disaster! We'll publish the best story next week and the winner will scoop a ticket to the Grand Prix worth $50!