Something that I never thought could happen just happen!
I have an AA and when comes the board I fold, I just have shure that villain have a sequence, was the same played before.
Know when to fold is more important then know when to raise.
I have an AA and when comes the board I fold, I just have shure that villain have a sequence, was the same played before.
Know when to fold is more important then know when to raise.
Not folding can cost you on the turn or river
Even as a stack leader not folding on the turn or river can cost you winning the tourney. I have lost countless times with a premium hole cards on the turn and especially the river. I know when I do fold my card I need always comes up. Just think about your (ROI) when you fold someone else gets knocked out and your return on interest still goes up. You never know so be sure if you are not sure just fold. Capo1014
Even as a stack leader not folding on the turn or river can cost you winning the tourney. I have lost countless times with a premium hole cards on the turn and especially the river. I know when I do fold my card I need always comes up. Just think about your (ROI) when you fold someone else gets knocked out and your return on interest still goes up. You never know so be sure if you are not sure just fold. Capo1014
I agree that know when to fold is a talent and a skill that too few poker players possess. Most refuse to believe that a good hand could ever be beaten. Instead they seem to think that throwing more chips at hand will somehow make it stronger. But as pointed out in several of the previous posts, many professional players will tell you that difference between being a good player and a great player is the ability to lay hand down.
It's very important to fold sometimes. I lost a lot of hands just because I didn't want to fold a monster hand and I still lose tournaments like that. I gotta work on that, for sure. I think that it doesn't matter if it's online or live, you have to know when to fold in both.
Folding is absolutely an art form.
We all know that folding too much will leave us open to abuse by an observant opponent.
If we never fold we are guaranteed to bleed our chips away to better hands.
Finding the balance and the right thought process to make this decision is the art form.
The one thing I have decided (I am not sure too many pros will agree, but that is OK), is that going all-in too early prevents us from being able to use the fold tool effectively. If we shove our stack with AA pre-flop, and we see 4 to a flush on the board, there is nothing we can do about. In a cash game this may be perfectly acceptable because we will win 5/6 times and the money won is all that matters. But in a tournament, I don't think this is the right move. We can't afford to lose our entire stack 1/6 times in a tournament.
We all know that folding too much will leave us open to abuse by an observant opponent.
If we never fold we are guaranteed to bleed our chips away to better hands.
Finding the balance and the right thought process to make this decision is the art form.
The one thing I have decided (I am not sure too many pros will agree, but that is OK), is that going all-in too early prevents us from being able to use the fold tool effectively. If we shove our stack with AA pre-flop, and we see 4 to a flush on the board, there is nothing we can do about. In a cash game this may be perfectly acceptable because we will win 5/6 times and the money won is all that matters. But in a tournament, I don't think this is the right move. We can't afford to lose our entire stack 1/6 times in a tournament.
With hands like QQ, KK and AA, you want to be left alone with your opponent, as these hands are very vulnerable post-flop against two low pairs or a set. And the more opponents you run into the bank, the greater the chance that someone will catch these combinations in the middle hand (for example, a suited T9c connector or a low pocket pair 55).BRANCASLIM said:
Drumsound said:
I am this way too. Best feeling when you fold a strong hand/strong hole cards and it is the correct decision. Just last week, I found myself in a 9-player SNG looking down at QQ on the Button. I open raise 3x and standard stuff, but had SB re-raise and then MP re-raise All-In. I considered playing my nice hand, but I sensed that one of them had AA. It was an intuition thing (probably based on how tight they were playing lately). Anyway, I folded QQ preflop. The player after me then shows AA and the other player shows 99. What are the odds? Three of us having pocket pairs in the same hand (everyone else at the table folded) here? The 99 lost a lot of chips and the AA doubled up. I felt like Phil Hellmuth:
"I can dodge bullets, baby!" 😀
people always tend to bet too much and not fold their hands. I think it is extremely important to know how to fold your hand at the right time depending on the situation. even when it is a hand with great potential like for example Ak or other. It is true that you decrease your chances of reaching the first place but this can allow you to find yourself in the final table with a stack in the middle. it is a style of play where you have to redouble your patience and especially where it is necessary to acquire a good reading of the game of your opponents.
A lot of players focus on the fold button! I think it's just a love of paradoxes! Isn't it important to be able to make the right additional bets and many other tricks that successful players do? Well, not everyone is delighted with just the correct folds (I think this is ridiculous).