Worst pre-flop folds you've done?

#1 6th March 2008, 1:24 PM

For instance tonight I was sitting on 9 7 off and I had the strongest feeling I was going to flop a straight, though the guy directly to my right +1 raised to $2 in a 25/50 cent game, and I had already won a nice pot so I decided to let it go when the other person called as well and plus it was very unlikely I thought I had just saved myself $2.

What flops up but none other 6 8 10 rainbow. They both go all in, show there cards.....both have A Q off. I was spewing

both ended up splitting the pot with A Q high and that would've been over a $100 pot too.

#2 6th March 2008, 1:31 PM

lmao, thats a standard preflop fold
ive folded KK a few times preflop, folded AA on the bubble of a satty but i dont consider any of those plays bad

#3 6th March 2008, 1:46 PM

i folded kk preflop in a forum event about a year ago because i had raise - reraise - rereraise shove (all pretty deepish stacked) all in front of me.

the intial raiser folded and the others had like TT and AJ or something, lolz.

#4 6th March 2008, 1:46 PM

Lol I know, its just I had the strongest feeling haha garbage gets turned into treasure

#5 6th March 2008, 2:20 PM

Non nonsensical, but still fun.

This seems to happen to me a lot, where I will fold truly ugly cards and would have flopped a boat, or quads. But then I remember the RNG's and dismiss it.

Helps pass the time though to think 'what might have been'.

The worst ones are when I have that feeling something could happen, but better sense washes over me and I fold and then see the monster that truly would have changed the game.

cest le poker!

#6 6th March 2008, 2:36 PM

I've certainly made enough bad pre-flop folds to write a book about, though even worse than these are the bad post-flop folds....Doncha hate giving up the draw that hits!

Sigh, but as DJ says, c'est le poker!

#7 6th March 2008, 2:43 PM

Mis-clicked folded KK on the final table of a pokerstars $11 donkament, with less than 5 big blinds behind. Still managed to get a nice deal 4 handed in the end though.

#8 6th March 2008, 3:49 PM

We've probably all folded str8's, flushes and boats, but this is my biggest that I can remember...

#9 6th March 2008, 3:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by K_Kahne_Fan

We've probably all folded str8's, flushes and boats, but this is my biggest that I can remember...

i dont see the point of looking at what could have been...because if u had called, the RNG would have produced a different board, so it is all lies i tell ya, lies

#10 6th March 2008, 3:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pantin007

i dont see the point of looking at what could have been...because if u had called, the RNG would have produced a different board, so it is all lies i tell ya, lies

I think Stars uses a set deck after shuffle, so they would be the same. However, I don't look at these type hands and think "awe, I coulda'..." because I folded for a reason and it just so happens the board did what it did. I'll still fold in this situation in the future.

#11 6th March 2008, 4:07 PM

Honestly when I muck bad cards, I tend to forget what they were. I know that you can check to see what you folded but I really see no point in thinking about what could have been if you had played those cards like a donk.

#12 6th March 2008, 4:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dj11

This seems to happen to me a lot, where I will fold truly ugly cards

lies, dj, lies

#13 6th March 2008, 11:12 PM

I folded a Q6 off in a live game on Monday night that would've become quad queens... but meh, I still don't think it was a bad fold.

#14 6th March 2008, 11:21 PM

i've folded 72 and had the flop come 777. does that make it a bad fold? no of course not. you can't play on feeling, i have 93 but i feel some 9's coming so i'm going to call a preflop raise. that's just stupid. you don't know what cards are coming, and anyone who plays like this would be extremely unprofitable.

#15 7th March 2008, 1:13 AM

People, the OP didn't say "cards you wished you played", I took it as 'cards you didn't play (for whatever reason) that would've become something (not that you would ever play them again, and not that you care you folded them this time)'

#16 7th March 2008, 1:44 AM

A friend folded AQs today to a PF 4 bet i think, and would have made a royal flush. He had best hand PF as well just didn't know. Today i folded AKs in a 2 person all in in an MTT. Didn't want to risk the chips, but as it turned out i would have had them pretty much dominated.

#17 7th March 2008, 2:06 AM

I repeatedly folded winners last night. Worst was 95 which became Quad 9s. I kicked myself because I was in the BB and did have good pot odds.

I can fold up to QQs, but I have a hard time letting go of KK.

goldog

#18 7th March 2008, 4:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dorkus Malorkus

i folded kk preflop in a forum event about a year ago because i had raise - reraise - rereraise shove (all pretty deepish stacked) all in front of me.

the intial raiser folded and the others had like TT and AJ or something, lolz.

Yah, about 6 months ago, I folded 99 in a similar situation and the flop came 9-9-something I don't remember, because I was curled up crying in the corner.

#19 7th March 2008, 4:59 AM

I folded 3-3 to a PF raise and told a buddy who was watching me play "watch, the flop is going to be 3_3"... the flop was 3_3...

#20 7th March 2008, 5:14 PM

Yea i flopped quad 3s yesterday. I find it harder to fold hands where i have recently flopped quads than a premium hand sometimes. 3s are where it is at...

#21 7th March 2008, 6:26 PM

I once called an all in with 8,3 because i thought i had pocket 8's. Proceeded to win by spiking an 8 on the flop against a,k. Boy was he pissed

#22 7th March 2008, 10:12 PM

I got disconnected *twice* with K/K the same night.
Ends up the first time saved me money as I'd have lost.
The second one sucked though.

#23 9th March 2008, 6:11 PM

Isnt poker all about making the right decisions at the right time, thats the way i look at it and strive to get better at. No point looking back.
I got knocked out of a 200k guarantee tourney few weeks ago, got unlucky on the river but it softened the blow to know that i made the right decision at the right time, i was about 75% favourite to win the pot

#24 9th March 2008, 11:25 PM

it like 85 percent that the best hand gets folded i think if you had like 7 2 off and the flop comes 2 2 7 like who care 99 times out of a 100 your going to fold that hand anyways i thinks better when you make great fold like i was playing in a home it's 100 dollar buy in sit n go and really only 1st gets the money 1st hand of the game i got kings a guy raised than a reaise and an all in i knew that i guy had aces just because i know how he plays so i folded and he did have aces and the other 2 had queen and 10's and the guy hit quad aces

#25 10th March 2008, 12:01 AM

I have folded queens against a raise a re-raise and all-in when I came to a new table, no doubt the two players that went had it had like aj and a10, what can you do when you can't tell how loose these guys are playing?

Also I've folded things that were going to be straight flushes and quads, but I don't mind since most of the time I have good reasons to fold.

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