Am I the only Bonehead?

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Am I the only bonehead that inadvertently folds a great hand from time to time?

I am usually fairly diligent when playing but I have farked up royally two times in as many days, at the tables. I totally have no excuse other than to blame it on my folding trance.

On the one below I’m UTG+1, AQoff I 3 Raise, I get one caller, the BB. Flop favors me with 5QQ rainbow, I go to check after a slight delay and BAM, I click the FOLD button.

I’m not one to get angry but I was none too pleased with myself.

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I have no excuses, although I could blame in on Captain Morgan.


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mets40

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Probably not, occasionally I hit the wrong button and fold a good hand, it happens when I lose concentration.
 
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Ugghh...the dreaded folding trance...I have definitely been there and wanted to puke when I realized that I dumped a great hand.....Yuk
 
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Thank you for the help attaching the visual aid Debi.
 

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gu:) ess it could happen to anyone speically with captain at your side
 
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That's happened to me too; I have to discipline myself after something like that not to make bad plays afterwards "to make up for it".:eek:
 
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I think it's a little better than inadvertently hitting the "call" button when you have garbage. That's happened to me a couple of times when my turn to act pulled the FTP window to the front as I was trying to click another window. One of those was an all in against a smaller stack (thankfully). I was pretty embarrassed when the table saw my rags.
 
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I never drink & play poker. Really bad combination imo.

I'm sure everyone has had a bad misclick or two. Last one I recall, my neighbour was over visiting (first & only time he has while I've been playing online poker... he's an avid poker player both live & online, holds a bunch of tournaments in my area (100+ players, ~$50-75 buyin), has played for 40yrs.+... he's actually visiting to ask me if I want to play a fairly decent MTT he's qualified for via satellite but won't be around to play it and was wondering if I'd play it for him)). I'm in a private tourney on Fulltilt at the time, I'm holding the nuts and have my opponent leading out on the river with the remainder of their stack.... and I 'fold'... LOL.
No,.... I didn't play the MTT for him, lol.
 
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I never drink & play poker. Really bad combination imo.

I'm sure everyone has had a bad misclick or two. Last one I recall, my neighbour was over visiting (first & only time he has while I've been playing online poker... he's an avid poker player both live & online, holds a bunch of tournaments in my area (100+ players, ~$50-75 buyin), has played for 40yrs.+... he's actually visiting to ask me if I want to play a fairly decent MTT he's qualified for via satellite but won't be around to play it and was wondering if I'd play it for him)). I'm in a private tourney on Fulltilt at the time, I'm holding the nuts and have my opponent leading out on the river with the remainder of their stack.... and I 'fold'... LOL.
No,.... I didn't play the MTT for him, lol.










IMO it's much better to give up neighbors than drinking, you can never really count on your neighbors.
 
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Sometimes I accedently call because I am clicking on one table and the other one pops up. Not to often though.
 
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I accidentally folded tonight at Full Tilt...Q3...would have given me the win with a Flush! I was trying to play 2 tables at once & could not get the split screen then!
On Ultimate Bet, I've pushed 'enter' to comment on someone's hand and, low & behold, I've gone All-IN! Once for over 14,000 chips! OUCH! Lesson learned...esp. at UB, I look to see if I'm next to bet before I push 'enter' to chat! I guess it happens to all of us from one time to another though...:D
 
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I was on the phone when i folded a full house on the flop.

Kept trying to make my correspondent hand up and had become fixated on the tactics of outing this opponent that i failed to see id become a victim on what really mattered.
 
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I think it's a little better than inadvertently hitting the "call" button when you have garbage. That's happened to me a couple of times when my turn to act pulled the FTP window to the front as I was trying to click another window. One of those was an all in against a smaller stack (thankfully). I was pretty embarrassed when the table saw my rags.

offset your windows a bit:):)
 
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I've done that before, too. Can't blame it on drinking, though, because I don't drink alcohol anymore. Haven't for years. Anyway, I think it was because my time was running and I got in too big a hurry the last time. It bites but that's part of online poker. In a live game, you wouldn't run into the misclicks and timing errors. I stagger my windows when I play multiple tables, but when I am in a tournament, then a new window often pops up where I don't really want it, so I have to be careful and move it over when I catch it.
 
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folding a good hand doesnt bother me, its playing it badly that does
 
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Pre-flop folds...

I've hit the all in button by mistake a couple of times or called with a medium hand against an obvious full house... however;

I tend to fold muck hands, only to see the full fouse on the flop, or junk low suited connectors only to make the flush against a guy holding AKo. If it's not that I win, or would have won, the pot had I not folded my pair 4's!
 
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Been there done it so many time. Especially while multiple tabling. I'll set mine with a small pocket pair and accidentally miss seeing my gem card.
 
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Doesn't it come up a box to stop you if you open fold post-flop?
 
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i do this all the time, i know how you feel.

especially with pocket pairs and miss flop and have auto-fold on and every1 checks then i turn a set
 
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on ultimate bet they used to have the lobby button on the right and when it came your turn to bet the all in button was there instead. cause for panic in more than one situation lol
 
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i accidently hit the raise button after someone puts in more than half their stack when i originally meant to min raise.
 
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Tommy Angelo calls this "finger tilt". Unless im multitabling I purposely never leave my hand on the mouse just as an attempt to minimize these mistakes.
 
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I was playing 3 tables once with the windows all at max size. I folded pocket aces because another screen popped up. Ugh. Not an alcohol induced fold but pissed me off nonetheless. So from then on,like Muckets said, I stagger my windows.
 
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I've had it happen from time to time, especially when multi-tabling. More often though I timeout on a premium hand at one table while being focused on an AI situation or something on another table. Eventually I see AA on another table and reach for the mouse just as it folds itself, which is highly frustrating.

And all of you mentioning folding a hand that would have made the nuts on the flop should console yourself by remembering that of the major sites, only pokerstars uses a set deck, so anywhere else you would have seen a different flop anyway. ;)
 
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Doesn't it come up a box to stop you if you open fold post-flop?


Thats what I was wondering I have always had a box come and and say you dont have to fold you can check. Unless they are saying that the BB bet and then they hit fold accidently
 
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