Best hand you've folded pre flop?

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Maybe you are close to the money or a big pay jump. You don't really want to take risk right now but you look down at a big hand. Some players move all in which would put you all in. You go back and forth whether to fold or go all in but you make the fold. What's the biggest hand you've ever folded pre flop? What was the reason for the fold? I've folded KK once and don't think I ever will again. I was on the money bubble and regretted it. I would have won against 2 all ins.
 
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Folded QQ many times, have never been able to fold KK preflop :p.
 
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Folded even AA if it's the beginning of _really_ cool tournament and some fishes mindlessly go all-in.
 
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KK to open raise. It was almost bubble of a satellite with huge blinds
 
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Just folded Q/Q in the first hand of a tourney yesterday. I've folded lots of great hands at the starts. I hate going all-in right off the bat.
 
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KK in a cash game, was kinda obvious after a 4 bet raise preflop, i folded and he showed and yes he had AA.
 
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Folded even AA if it's the beginning of _really_ cool tournament and some fishes mindlessly go all-in.

Why do you fold the best hand in Holdem preflop ? Don't see any reason to do this. Exspecially at the beginning of a tournament.
 
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I was on the bubble of freerolls pokerstars and to get into prizes I had to fold the pocket pair of KK on the pre-flop. That was long ago and I do not remember how ended up dealing on board.
 
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Why do you fold the best hand in Holdem preflop ? Don't see any reason to do this. Exspecially at the beginning of a tournament.

Wake up, AA cannot guarantee the winning. If it's the one of very first hands in super profitable tournament, I don't want to lose because of misfortune. And yes, I was talking about going all-in.
 
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Tank-folded KTo to a four-bet the other day. Was close to 5-betting instead. :D

Don't fold good hands very often if you are playing low stakes.

Good luck to you!
 
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Maybe you are close to the money or a big pay jump. You don't really want to take risk right now but you look down at a big hand. Some players move all in which would put you all in. You go back and forth whether to fold or go all in but you make the fold. What's the biggest hand you've ever folded pre flop? What was the reason for the fold? I've folded KK once and don't think I ever will again. I was on the money bubble and regretted it. I would have won against 2 all ins.

AA. Final table 4-way all-in, triple elimination chance, we're the 2nd shortest stack. Huge pay jumps, like, monstrous (somewhere around $2K).
 
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I've folded QQ the first hand of a tourney as well, raise and re-raise to me in middle position. I made the dealer look to see what I was folding. Turned out one hand was 10 10, one was AA and the 10 10 went broke. Felt pretty awesome to dodge a cold deck!
 
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If my stack is less than 150bb, I drop all hands and pull the time. Trying luck on a bubble is not the best idea for me. Hardly I will have the opportunity to make rebuys before the prizes:D.
 
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I've folded QQ pre a couple of times; due to the action, I was able to see that my fold was the right one all three times. It would have to be a rather spectacular 'read/tell' on someone to lay KK down preflop (your post indicates that you are talking about tourney's); few people (including the pros) are good enough to lay down KK pre, why do you think you should?

I have laid down QQ pre in a cash game as well. After giving a speech as to my play, my opponent turns over AA. Again, thanks to my good/lucky reading skills. :p
 
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Agreed Papier.

This is a terrible fold preflop. If you're not going to play the very best starting hand in holdem, then what hand are you going to play? To suggest that you're not going to play AA because "it's the beginning of a really cool tournament and some fish mindlessly goes allin" is just a poor mindset. It also gives a fantastic example of how NOT to play AA.

I believe a better approach is one that many of the top pros take. That being, as long as I get it in good, then I'm not going to be results oriented; because it's the right play, I want that call/action/etc. all day long. Example: my AK vs AX. If I put it in there and they call with a weaker A than mine, I NEVER get upset that they hit their 3 outer. I want that call all day long!! If I get it in there with AA and the call with a smaller pair and hit their 2 outer, I NEVER get upset as I want this call all day long. To fold AA preflop early in a tournament, without sufficient action before it gets to you, is just weak play. If anything, I want to know which city and B&M casino you play at, because I want your action all. day. long.
 
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I folded AA in satellites and folded KK few times in MTTs, my timer ran out few times when I had AA or KK but I don't count that.
 
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agreed. those don't count as you folding them... :)
 
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Dropping KK preflop

I entered the final table with about 800,000 chips, after doubling my stack in the final table bubble of AK against JJ. Also remembering that the final table of the event was recorded - the first televised table of a 100% Brazilian tournament, another victory.
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Above my stack, only three players: Junior (850k), Leo Perrone (also in the 800k home) and Cinthia (in the lead, with 900k). The thrill of playing the televised table is also part of the items to be analyzed here.
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Let's play:
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The UTG player, with 75k chips (completely short stack), fires all-in with blinds at 20k and 40k. I, being UTG + 1, I come across KK. I made a raise of 165k, getting about 630k in chips. Leo Perrone, just to my left, folds. And Junior fires a 300k reraise. The table folds around until my turn to speak.

Here begins my analysis.
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1 - Until then, Junior had not played on the TV table, which makes his range of hands decrease greatly.
2 - He knows me as a pro. Applying a reraise over the all-in UTG, after my raise in UTG + 1, causes me to have to further narrow his range of hands.
3 - Some could be easily discarded, such as AK, AQs, AJs. Typical hands with which no mini-reraises happen: either the citizen trusts that he has cards that can make me drop his hand and comes with a heavy (or even all-in) raise, or he folds and lets the game go on. Mainly with AK, hand whose standard movement is all-in.
4 - In my head, there were few hands left: JJ, QQ, KK or AA.
5 - From what I had of his game information on Day 1, I knew it might not be an AA - but it was some of the previous hands, for sure.
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I decided to "fold" the hand. Let's go to the reasons that led to this:
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1 - I thought there were good chances of being AA. So I'd be playing all my chips for two outs. Calling his bet I discarded, since most of the time neither he nor I will hit a chip on the flop. After the flop, I would continue without much reference - and especially without position - to analyze my opponent's action.
2 - If by chance he opened an AK, and my analysis was wrong, I did not want to give the chance to lose a tournament that I played two days without showing the cards to my opponent because of three outs.
3 - The main reason: in fact I believed that my advantage over opponents, to play pre-flop and flop, was very great. With that, what mattered least were my cards, in this case my KK - my stack was the biggest weapon for me to make it to the end of the tournament as a winner. I had a very good reading of those opponents and I felt that almost all the players were somewhat pressured with the financial values ​​involved at that time, which gave me even more advantage.
 
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AA, KK, QQ, and even AKs, I shove if you have reading the opposites ..
In the long term it is profitable ..
But I've had some droplets like that.



I gave a shove, all in the flop at 1.10 GTB FT, $ 500 (and little more) prize money for the first, I had finished the final table, I with 10, Qoff, Cbet pre flop, 2 player paid, flop 8.9, two of diamonds, with flush, as I followed, I made the following, shove to make them drop the game, and I pull the pot, the UTG + 1 paid with A, 7 diamonds, in the Turn hit another diamond card and I lost !!
So simple, FT's first hand and I went to the shower. ..
 
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Table of nine players. I'm on the button.Two players in early position and one player in late position going all-in.I do fold with AA and round that it's the right de cision.
 
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AA misclicked, in razz A23 after 2 hands hit in a row
 
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