Folding the winning hand

#1 8th January 2010, 4:03 AM

Hi
I am just wondering how common it is for players fold the winning hand, either through a lack of concentration or a misclick, only to realise it later? Is is something that only happens at the beginner level or do experienced players do it occansionally as well? I have played a fair bit of poker, but I just stupidly folded a straight in a hand online (caught runner runner), not realising that that is what i had. I am wondering if anyone ever done something like this before?

#2 8th January 2010, 4:14 AM

YouTube- Phil Ivey Mucks The Winning Hand - WSOP 2009

*And if you don't know what you had then you really need to practice the basics.

#3 8th January 2010, 5:15 AM

Also, Im pretty sure Ivey hadn't looked at his hand since the beginning of the hand, if he had he wouldve known he had the winning hand. Online you have the hands right in front of your face the whole time.

#4 8th January 2010, 5:42 AM

Wow. Ivey must've been really tired to do that.

#5 8th January 2010, 8:00 AM

Have to figure these players are sittting there for long peroids of time. Hhil had to think he had club and not a spade. You dont see that lot on the tour and not from Ivey.

I have played a some late nighters online that have went to early morning. Had few misclicks and misread the baord. All part of being human, mistakes will happen. good thing there was he didnt realize it, pot was not all that big. Could have been lot worse.

#6 8th January 2010, 9:08 PM

Sometimes it happens. A few weeks ago I accidentally folded an AA preflop after somebody went allin before me. Misclick...

#7 8th January 2010, 9:12 PM

I folded a river straight yesterday cause i'm a fool and wasn't concentrating though I did realise as I was pressing the button. Don't worry about it. There's a thread in the golden archives where a guy folded a FH, now that was funny.

#8 8th January 2010, 9:16 PM

Lol! just now too i did and after i seen that i folded the best hand.. my game went dirty and i played like mad dog and lost it.. and now sitting frustrated... It happend many times, it is all about reading the opponents, if you did it well it wont happen..!

#9 8th January 2010, 10:06 PM

My first year playing in a live B&M $5/$10 LHE game. I get KK. Myself and three others cap it pre-flop. I flop a set and cap it with two others. I turn a full-house and we cap again. We all cap the river and one guy flips over his quads. I muck my kings full over aces without showing.

The next night I'm hanging out waiting for the games to get going and I'm reading the card room rules: "Any jacks or better full-house beaten by four of a kind wins our bad beat jack-pot!"

Always show your hand to the dealer...

#10 8th January 2010, 10:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by suit2please

YouTube- Phil Ivey Mucks The Winning Hand - WSOP 2009

*And if you don't know what you had then you really need to practice the basics.

How i know that someone was going to put that there. That got to be one of the worst ivy monents in his career

#11 9th January 2010, 1:14 AM

Yeah, online if I fold the best hand it's a misclick, haha. Live, I can't recall having done it. I know I've misread my hand before but yeah, anyone who's played a lot of live poker like myself has done that. Mainly because I look at my hand once and that's it. Sometimes I confuse myself forgetting which card was the diamond and which was the heart.

#12 9th January 2010, 1:37 AM

It happens. Just try to make sure you take the time look at the hand when you act. Maybe to many tables or other things going on that don't let you focus.

#13 9th January 2010, 7:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Double-A

My first year playing in a live B&M $5/$10 LHE game. I get KK. Myself and three others cap it pre-flop. I flop a set and cap it with two others. I turn a full-house and we cap again. We all cap the river and one guy flips over his quads. I muck my kings full over aces without showing.

The next night I'm hanging out waiting for the games to get going and I'm reading the card room rules: "Any jacks or better full-house beaten by four of a kind wins our bad beat jack-pot!"

Always show your hand to the dealer...

OMG no that sucks!!! How much was the jackpot??? More than the pot you guys had together?

#14 9th January 2010, 7:15 AM

im sure everybody folds a winning hand from time to time..whether via misclick,misread,bluffed off of it, or whatever else...shit happens

#15 9th January 2010, 2:50 PM

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Originally Posted by salim271

OMG no that sucks!!! How much was the jackpot??? More than the pot you guys had together?

I honestly don't remember. But, I really needed the money at the time. It was big enough that I actually threw up when I realized what had happened, lol.

#16 10th January 2010, 3:05 AM

Everybody makes mistakes . I have done it by misclicking a few times multi-tabeling. Once I click all in when I meant to fold. I had something stupid like 73 the person I called had a high pp pair. I ended up winning the hand but I felt like a donk

#17 10th January 2010, 7:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Double-A

I honestly don't remember. But, I really needed the money at the time. It was big enough that I actually threw up when I realized what had happened, lol.

Poker is a great game... but sometimes it can just make u feel sick. Hence the term SICKKKKK... its not just a replacement for OMGWTF.

On another note, almost folded aces today when multitabling freerolls, it was pretty close.

#18 10th January 2010, 7:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by salim271

Poker is a great game... but sometimes it can just make u feel sick. Hence the term SICKKKKK... its not just a replacement for OMGWTF.

On another note, almost folded aces today when multitabling freerolls, it was pretty close.

u almost folded aces on accident? or after you saw a flop, turn and thought you were beat?

#19 10th January 2010, 7:40 AM

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Originally Posted by PattyR

u almost folded aces on accident? or after you saw a flop, turn and thought you were beat?

It was preflop lol, I used to get super excited when I saw aces in the pocket, now its just another starting hand unless I'm deep in a tournament. I had just folded on the two other tables, it was like K6... fold... 65o... fold... AA... fo- wait, uh what?

#20 10th January 2010, 2:33 PM

Its pretty common at any level.

You cannot see your opponents cards.

So if of all the hands he could have you beat two of them.. and it just so happens that this time he has one of those two but bets anyway... it is correct to fold the winning hand.

#21 11th January 2010, 12:34 PM

haha.. i have never seen that video before. Priceless

#22 11th January 2010, 10:28 PM

it when i know that i still don't have nuts , and the bet size that i would fold the winning hand due to that you still don't know what the other person has

#23 12th January 2010, 12:23 AM

i've made thos mistakes too, heck i missclicked AA, today i folded a straith, saw it after i did it.

#24 18th January 2010, 5:20 PM

After seeing the video and some of the responses of other members, and at least a couple of mistakes that I've made, can you imagine how much the misses, mistakes, or oversight's would add up to in $$$$$$$$. It would be very interesting to know how much if there was ever a way to determine it.

#25 18th January 2010, 5:28 PM

Can't remember what it was, but yeah, I folded the winning hand once or twice thanks to tiredness/lack of concentration. I'm sure it happens to everyone at one point or another.

The only memorable "misclick" I can remember was when I was browsing the net and just as I clicked a link the poker window popped up, and I was all-in with 72o. Needless to say I wasn't very popular at the table... especially since I won the hand.

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