only reason i can think of why he folded is because he was giving too much away.. the smile, and from what the players said its the first time that he tanked... but still that's no reason to lay aces down. couldof made sense to him though. he's not a pro or anything.
At first I had no idea why the fuck anyone in their right mind would fold here. But when you learn he was up $150k with only 50 hands or so to go, you can see why he would fold, fold, fold to lock up the win.
@zib3 even if he would show those aces the other two guys getting the right odds with their pocket pairs to call and try to flop a set and stack him ;)
@GunsNRosified do you understand the situation though? Ofcourse it's questionable and sure if you played it right to keep the pot small as possible, but after the smile and telling the table he is folding every hand (except aces) it puts him in a vulnerable spot. Every pot entered is so much money to risk. That fold saved him a good bit of money, period.
@pokerlif3 As an individual hand It saved him money because you know what the flop came. It cost him a loooot of money overall though. I think what you're saying is that the fold was "understandable", not "correct". Obviously in his situation he's just trying to book a profit, not maximize value, but if everyone's gunna know he has aces then why not just raise the pot and take everything that's already out there? Folding so that you don't give away your hand strength makes no sense.
@GunsNRosified He folded because he wanted to keep the profit he made. Loose Cannon starts /w 100k and anything above 100k they get to keep for themselves. He was above 100k (forget how much), and just wanted to coast to the end.
he threw them away because he told the table he was going to fold the rest of the remaining hands so he can walk away a winner... if he plays the hand the table would FOR SURE know he has aces or kings.
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some people try to figure out what has he done, others act like he did sth normal.
what i think is he wanted to be written in the history and be the man who fold Aces preflop on a stupid raise.. just to do it, combine with some fear of losing money on a strange situation he might be involved... Normally he did the most sick thing someone could ever do. FOLDING ACES PRE-FLOP
I just want to say that this is BY FAR the most beautiful example ever of how AA (or any other hand) is just a paint on a pair of plastic rectangular objects and that the strenght of a certain hand is always relative according to the specific situation a player finds himselfs in.
Its pot limit preflop, he is a school teacher who was $150k up at that stage. He couldnt raise enough to win it there and then and didnt want to risk not being able to fold them or being out played after the flop. Actually in many ways a VERY smart play. If it were no limit pre flop guaranteed he'd have just shipped his stack all in on the spot but he didnt have that option. Risk versus reward ahead 150k and not many hands left to play, I like the play alot.
@a1n2d3r4e5w6yi ill reiterate since you clearly have limited intelligence! The guy is a school teacher and up $150000 near the end of the game. Its POT LIMIT preflop, he knows even if he raises the pot he can't win it there and then because he cant raise enough to make the othesr fold. Equally he knows he cant outplay the professionals since he's only really ahead because of a major suckout on Hellmuth. He folded to conserve his huge profits. You embarass yourself with your ignorant comments!
@cbr900rrw i agree with alot of what u said. i still think 100% u cant fold a's preflop. if he had all those issues at least see a flop then fold. he looks a little better cos it comes quads but he could have flopped it too. i dont think it was a major suck out against hellmuth either. also interesting to see if comments such as cbr900rrw's would be made if he/she was sitting across the table from someone as opposed to sitting snuggly in his/her bedroom
The point is, he is playing the situation not the cards. If the game had just started then he'd play the hand and raise handsomely but its not. If you cant understand the concept of situation poker then you have an awful lot still to learn and probably its wise for you not to make ignorant comments and make yourself look like such a cunt
gadzooks is right, this was the first episode i ever saw of the big game (but i missed this hand) and the whole time the cannon was folding anything "but kings or aces" which apparently he also planned on folding. and it was because he didnt wanna risk his money no matter what because it was such a life changing amount...though i think most people wouldve played the aces it happened to work out for the best because it wouldve been hard to get off aces with a board like that not very scary for AA
these comments tilt me so fucking much. you're blatantly some lost retard playing 1 dollar sit n gos and cant taking a 3 outer once every 10 games....... go fuck yourself
@DizzyWalin91 yeah do the "you're probably playn 1$ sit&go's" to make it sound like you're not a cocsucking bitch who plays freerolls and playmoney. get the fuck out of poker ginger bitch homo
@nathanojo In a cash game then you are right. In a tournament, there are situations where you SHOULD fold AA preflop, depending on stack size, pay structure, number of people left and other things.
in this case it was a dumb fold cuz only 3 ppl in the hand but fortunatly for him it ended up being a good fold.
but lets say ur in a 9 player table and theres bout 4 or more players that have alrdeady put bout 25-50% of there stacks in the pot and your small or big blind and you have AA its not stupid to fold cuz theyre are probably lots of players with pocket pairs so theyres a high chance that at least one of them will hit the set and you wont.
folded KKs later when Williams 3bets him with AQ with 25k left. Why not take a 70% chance to win 25k?? Even if he had lost, he wud still have like 110k left.
umm no... its only pot limiy preflop so they both have implied odds to play for a set + if a weird connected board comes they can easily bluff him out.
@dozentcare No way would Mercier have folded to a reraise; he's almost $250k deep with the amateur and has the perfect hand to crack a big pair. I doubt Laak would have folded either.
he folded because he was up 140k and didnt want to get outplayed.. the fact phil laak hits quads on the flop is neither here nor there, obviously its still sick
2 shocking things in this 3 minute video, the AA folding preflop is fucking nuts, but phil laak's new make over is soooooooooooooooo different from before wtf????
lol he was free rolling in the beginning to make his profit then once he lucked out and made 140k or w,e he not only had possibly 14x or higher his current bank account and liquid net worth but also the very good possibility of being the highest winning cannon of the season and getting the tournament prize package of jet setting around the world playing in very high buy in tournaments, potentially making millions more. AA is the hand you can lose the biggest pots with, he'd jeopardize it all.
That is just lucky, folding AA preflop with 2 players involved is a mistake....at least a call to see a flop....if he didn't like to play out of position. you can't say that's good play...
I dont see how folding AA pre can ever be the right decission, and saying it was right because the flop came 66x with Laak holding 66 is just totally resultsoriented and retarded. This is a no brainer reraise IMO as even in PL Hold'em you can still protect your hand well enough
I think in his spot, alot of people should fold.. AA is not 100% win, it also is very hard to play vs heavy aggresive.. Its best to just hold onto your winnings in his spot.
@bohemia187 LOL, so then don't sit down at a poker table, cause no hand is 100% pre-flop. He folded because he was already winning and had a profit and didn't want to lose it.
@bohemia187 You could always see the flop for $8k. Folding is the worst play he made at the time. If he saw the flop and it was 6K6 then he can let it go. But what if the flop was AA6 or AA4 he couldve made a lot more. the LEAST he could've done was at least see the flop. If you flop short of the nuts just let it go
@Pejarox7620 I dont think hes getting the odds to call just to hit quads on the flop.. its not going to happen nearly enough and if he does get a set of aces, hes going to play it so scared that hes not going to make any money and prob end up folding if a straight or flush hits by river against aggression becuz everyone knows hes not calling without the nuts
i can understand him folding it pre flop, cause he doesn't want to get in a really tough situation where the money that completely changes his life will fuck his mind up and he can end up losing his profit...but i guess he could at least call those 2k to flop the nuts or fold it...
limit pre-flop so he couldn.t just shove. That money was massive for him and I think the loose cannon with the largest profit got a prize or a seat into a big tournament or something. Can't remember properly. So obviously long run this is bad but in that spot you can justify it easily enough
Remember, The Big Game is Pot Limit pre-flop. He could not have gone all in before the flop and after the flop he was beat.
He wanted to protect his profit because that was a life changing amount of money for him and his family. He was not going to have another opportunity to make that kind of money in that short of time.
And how would you know? It's PL preflop, a 3bet wouldn't be that big... And ofcourse he plays scared money, the guy is a schoolteacher... this is so much money to him, why would he gamble with it? If he 3bet and laak would've called, he would've lost 100K...
seen under that aspects and with all the circumstances it's an absolut legit fold ... even if it was no limit i would not risk my winnings going all in before the flop
@gadzooks64 I dont know the guy, dont know if for example he absolutely needs the money for something specific, but other than that if the money is so important so is the opportunity he had there to make more money. He will not have the same shot again he had in this show to make that kind of money. I would just go for it unless i had like a big mortgage to pay or something and was making very little money otherwise. And he shouldnt have told them bc now hes not getting paid if he plays a hand.
If he didn't want to risk it he could've went all-in, made 5 thousand dollars, everyone would OBVIOUSLY fold since the LC is making a huge profit and doesn't want to take any chance, so everyone would know he has aces at this point and fold.
funny thing is, if he reraise pre flop.....laak might fold with Jason next to act.
and @cam0ka, you said he does not want to risk his profit, will if he fold AA like that everytime he is winning, then he is simply loosing profit. its that simple.....
if you dont know this show pls dont comment. the guy will have whatever he has more than 100.000$ and he is already winning. they are playing last a few hands and he did not want to risk his profit. its that simple...
why is everyone calling this a great play??? It's an awful play, if he raised big pre flop as he should have Laak would have folded the sixes and he'd had taken the pot
@stharpun yeah right, he profited like 200k+ thats way more then the average salary for him. Good for him, good job folding and letting go of your blinds / antes. He did what he had to do
not a single person in the comments section said this play was great, not even anyone in the show, you just assumed so you could write your shitty comment and sound like you know what you're talking about
why is everyone calling this a great play??? It's an awful play, if he raised big pre flop as he should have Laak would have folded the sixes and he'd had taken the pot
I bet he coulda folded, cuz laak always instafolds if he doesn't have it. Maybe lose 20k but he just saved some money there. Awesome hand tho.
seviren 3 weeks ago
if you follow up the show you will understand why he folded AA pre flop
tiagopokerface 1 month ago
only reason i can think of why he folded is because he was giving too much away.. the smile, and from what the players said its the first time that he tanked... but still that's no reason to lay aces down. couldof made sense to him though. he's not a pro or anything.
minnymac1 1 month ago
That's why it is pot limit preflop. He would probably push without playing postflop with pro when he is big winner anyway.
MusztardowyTygrys 1 month ago
standard fold.
on pokerstars
dannyoo2 1 month ago 8
EPIC
moffe000 1 month ago
it was a correct fold taking into account the context
usun3 1 month ago
At first I had no idea why the fuck anyone in their right mind would fold here. But when you learn he was up $150k with only 50 hands or so to go, you can see why he would fold, fold, fold to lock up the win.
GaeasBlessing 2 months ago
LOL!! CMON IT'S EASY IF U DON'T WANT TO PLAY POCKET ACES JUST GO ALL IN PREFLOP! NOBODY CALL U AND PICK UP THE BLIND AND POT MONEY.
STUPID BASTARD!!!!
Misterseiting 2 months ago
@Misterseiting You CAN´T go allin pre-flop, it is pot-limit and No-limit after the flop :-))
Nitroxill 2 months ago
@Nitroxill Ok, I though it was NL, sorry then
Misterseiting 2 months ago
"If this happened in a movie, I would say it's too unrealistic"
LOL. Gold.
IOYB 2 months ago
phil laak has the gayest haircut ever...
TheKeisari 3 months ago
He will tell the story to his children.
-Kids the greatest decision i ever made in poker was to fold aces preflop...
Barney: wait WHAAAAAAAAAAT???
ShortieAlefas 3 months ago 2
ameizing good lay down ;p
Alik1991 3 months ago
i dont understand SHIT , how is this posible
kornbizkit16 3 months ago
if he doesn't want to play anymore, i would have showed the As and raised like... 30000
zib3 3 months ago
@zib3 it is pot limit preflop u cant bet more than the pot
Rex0pas 3 months ago
@Rex0pas
oh, right :D thx
watched the whole season and still forgot about that. but showing the aces should be enough normally. everyone who calls looks like an idiot.
zib3 3 months ago
@zib3 even if he would show those aces the other two guys getting the right odds with their pocket pairs to call and try to flop a set and stack him ;)
Rex0pas 3 months ago
@zib3 Its potlimit preflop, and if he showed his hand, it would be dead.
msinummoc 3 months ago
If you don't want to play a pot with aces. The only thing you should do is go all in but not fold.
TheWayshowerTube 4 months ago
If the game is NL that was a stupid play..should just push all in...if its PL then it was a good fold.
pokerlif3 4 months ago
@pokerlif3 LOL wow ur so GOOD at poker
DoomShallot 3 months ago
@DoomShallot do you understand the situation he is in? I dont think so...shut up.
pokerlif3 3 months ago
@pokerlif3 lol@u
DoomShallot 3 months ago
@pokerlif3 It's pot limit preflop, and NL post flop, and that is never a good fold, sir.
GunsNRosified 3 months ago
@GunsNRosified do you understand the situation though? Ofcourse it's questionable and sure if you played it right to keep the pot small as possible, but after the smile and telling the table he is folding every hand (except aces) it puts him in a vulnerable spot. Every pot entered is so much money to risk. That fold saved him a good bit of money, period.
pokerlif3 3 months ago
@pokerlif3 As an individual hand It saved him money because you know what the flop came. It cost him a loooot of money overall though. I think what you're saying is that the fold was "understandable", not "correct". Obviously in his situation he's just trying to book a profit, not maximize value, but if everyone's gunna know he has aces then why not just raise the pot and take everything that's already out there? Folding so that you don't give away your hand strength makes no sense.
GunsNRosified 3 months ago
@GunsNRosified He folded because he wanted to keep the profit he made. Loose Cannon starts /w 100k and anything above 100k they get to keep for themselves. He was above 100k (forget how much), and just wanted to coast to the end.
kmvoss 2 months ago
@kmvoss I understand the concept, but we're talking about whether it was correct, not reasonable. Obviously this is never correct.
GunsNRosified 2 months ago
david williams didn't believe him when he said pocket Jacks at 2:57 like "what was it" like he knew he didn't have jacks
ggnub100 4 months ago
he threw them away because he told the table he was going to fold the rest of the remaining hands so he can walk away a winner... if he plays the hand the table would FOR SURE know he has aces or kings.
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THERollyboy123 4 months ago
Check out his surname, it's FISHman :)
MatiKosa 4 months ago
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lllshokoboylll 5 months ago
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Machico91 5 months ago
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StahovacMrtvol 5 months ago 13
@StahovacMrtvol your an idiot
asianmonk 5 months ago
@asianmonk stfu monkey, no one asked your opion asian fuckhead
StahovacMrtvol 5 months ago
@StahovacMrtvol loll your really bad
asianmonk 5 months ago
some people try to figure out what has he done, others act like he did sth normal.
what i think is he wanted to be written in the history and be the man who fold Aces preflop on a stupid raise.. just to do it, combine with some fear of losing money on a strange situation he might be involved... Normally he did the most sick thing someone could ever do. FOLDING ACES PRE-FLOP
warcryergr 5 months ago
lol at the people justifying this.
Deco354 5 months ago
hey hey hey....where is the Unabomber??
judyandmary45 5 months ago
I just want to say that this is BY FAR the most beautiful example ever of how AA (or any other hand) is just a paint on a pair of plastic rectangular objects and that the strenght of a certain hand is always relative according to the specific situation a player finds himselfs in.
TomMolivan 6 months ago
Its pot limit preflop, he is a school teacher who was $150k up at that stage. He couldnt raise enough to win it there and then and didnt want to risk not being able to fold them or being out played after the flop. Actually in many ways a VERY smart play. If it were no limit pre flop guaranteed he'd have just shipped his stack all in on the spot but he didnt have that option. Risk versus reward ahead 150k and not many hands left to play, I like the play alot.
cbr900rrw 6 months ago 2
@cbr900rrw If you aren't going to play AA then what kind of hand do you expect him to play?
a1n2d3r4e5w6yi 6 months ago
@a1n2d3r4e5w6yi At that point, none. Given the situation, there simply does not exist a hand he could possibly play profitably.
TomMolivan 6 months ago
@a1n2d3r4e5w6yi ill reiterate since you clearly have limited intelligence! The guy is a school teacher and up $150000 near the end of the game. Its POT LIMIT preflop, he knows even if he raises the pot he can't win it there and then because he cant raise enough to make the othesr fold. Equally he knows he cant outplay the professionals since he's only really ahead because of a major suckout on Hellmuth. He folded to conserve his huge profits. You embarass yourself with your ignorant comments!
cbr900rrw 6 months ago 5
@cbr900rrw i agree with alot of what u said. i still think 100% u cant fold a's preflop. if he had all those issues at least see a flop then fold. he looks a little better cos it comes quads but he could have flopped it too. i dont think it was a major suck out against hellmuth either. also interesting to see if comments such as cbr900rrw's would be made if he/she was sitting across the table from someone as opposed to sitting snuggly in his/her bedroom
DaddyCalls 5 months ago
The point is, he is playing the situation not the cards. If the game had just started then he'd play the hand and raise handsomely but its not. If you cant understand the concept of situation poker then you have an awful lot still to learn and probably its wise for you not to make ignorant comments and make yourself look like such a cunt
cbr900rrw 6 months ago
I watched this episode, after he folded AA pf, he also folded KK pf. Now he was just getting all technical trying to be all cool.
Vi3tKid420 6 months ago
i dont blame him, ha was out of position
MrBiszibosz 6 months ago
@MrBiszibosz lol
pufifa 5 months ago
Bleah O.o
francoddm 6 months ago
definitively pre-flop genius
narucy56 6 months ago
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?
diogogptb 6 months ago 44
i would have done the same thing, not everyday u get to make that much money
az015 6 months ago
OMG WTF ? FOLD AA WTFFFFFFF
BackToFuCck 6 months ago
he shouldnt have told them he had aces - because it means he had zero chance of a walk down the line
cardigan3000 6 months ago
@cardigan3000 good point
ABlackbirdOnline 6 months ago
press 9 in a steady motion, you can litteraly hear the chips he saved by folding in his eyes as he blinks.
leeroyjetsonsbitch 6 months ago
gadzooks is right, this was the first episode i ever saw of the big game (but i missed this hand) and the whole time the cannon was folding anything "but kings or aces" which apparently he also planned on folding. and it was because he didnt wanna risk his money no matter what because it was such a life changing amount...though i think most people wouldve played the aces it happened to work out for the best because it wouldve been hard to get off aces with a board like that not very scary for AA
xeviltoasterx 6 months ago
WTF this guy do not respect poker, maybe he is balancing his preflop range? :D
obrutmaster 6 months ago
WTF?
PycckueBnepeg 6 months ago
this show becomes so stupid once the loose cannon is in the green... grow some fuckin balls and play AA no matter how much you're up
Gman9855 7 months ago
Press 4 on your keyboard.
i3Stars 7 months ago
press 4 once per second to hear the commentator do his best chicken impression
chiphead777 7 months ago
press 5 fast and see what mercier doin
crinulcrinul 7 months ago
Bottom line- you can't argue with results.
Kailorian 7 months ago
he knew it was a fulltilt deck
dannyoo2 7 months ago 47
@dannyoo2 lol
whatageeza 6 months ago
@dannyoo2 - never was a truer word spoken in jest! That or Jokerstars.
GuyMagicFingers 2 months ago
@dannyoo2
these comments tilt me so fucking much. you're blatantly some lost retard playing 1 dollar sit n gos and cant taking a 3 outer once every 10 games....... go fuck yourself
DizzyWalin91 2 months ago
@DizzyWalin91 yeah do the "you're probably playn 1$ sit&go's" to make it sound like you're not a cocsucking bitch who plays freerolls and playmoney. get the fuck out of poker ginger bitch homo
dannyoo2 1 month ago
@dannyoo2
lol why u mad tho?
DizzyWalin91 1 month ago
folding AA preflop is never a good fold. its against the rules of poker!!!
nathanojo 7 months ago
@nathanojo In a cash game then you are right. In a tournament, there are situations where you SHOULD fold AA preflop, depending on stack size, pay structure, number of people left and other things.
vieestchien 7 months ago
Chicken Laak? Mamma mia.
Juanbarba 8 months ago
"I can't believe it, Vince!" LOL Stapes is the man.
AlfonsM 8 months ago
xD OMG...
VannyHill 8 months ago
This is Pokerstars! When you're rigged to lose, you're rigged to lose!
Siobaras 8 months ago
incredibile
karlosgto 8 months ago
in this case it was a dumb fold cuz only 3 ppl in the hand but fortunatly for him it ended up being a good fold.
but lets say ur in a 9 player table and theres bout 4 or more players that have alrdeady put bout 25-50% of there stacks in the pot and your small or big blind and you have AA its not stupid to fold cuz theyre are probably lots of players with pocket pairs so theyres a high chance that at least one of them will hit the set and you wont.
RG32hockey 8 months ago
@RG32hockey
BLABLABLA
UndercoverLdn 8 months ago
folded KKs later when Williams 3bets him with AQ with 25k left. Why not take a 70% chance to win 25k?? Even if he had lost, he wud still have like 110k left.
Very weird and irrational in my opinion
mallemol 9 months ago
phil laak is a cheater and it will come out- posted june 2011
GoldenBoyXCM 9 months ago
good fold :)=)=)
Horethjr 9 months ago
yea ironically enough, if he re-raised, laak probably will fold after making that comment and idk jason should fold as well
dozentcare 9 months ago
@dozentcare
umm no... its only pot limiy preflop so they both have implied odds to play for a set + if a weird connected board comes they can easily bluff him out.
Da1337DoOD 8 months ago
@dozentcare No way would Mercier have folded to a reraise; he's almost $250k deep with the amateur and has the perfect hand to crack a big pair. I doubt Laak would have folded either.
Dreamline78 7 months ago
What the fuck happend to Phil Laak
VietHeartz 9 months ago
whaaaaatttt!!!!!!!
voorons1 9 months ago
PRESS 4 FAST!!!!! THE BIGGEST "WHAAAATTTT" EVER!!!!
potvins 9 months ago
Lol, nice fold
MrGamesAndGuitars 9 months ago
he folded because he was up 140k and didnt want to get outplayed.. the fact phil laak hits quads on the flop is neither here nor there, obviously its still sick
Fuel1 9 months ago
love the "waaaahhhttt" at 1:22
Kino483 9 months ago
@laistar The loose cannon is staked by PokerStars. Anything he wins over the initial 100K stake is his to keep.
gadzooks64 9 months ago
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laistar 9 months ago
Did Laak lose a prop bet? Love the new look!
HuuKiwi 10 months ago
WTF??? Dude, reraise, what are u doing?
84Gunslinger 10 months ago
I don't get it
AFM247 10 months ago
2 shocking things in this 3 minute video, the AA folding preflop is fucking nuts, but phil laak's new make over is soooooooooooooooo different from before wtf????
udlock9 10 months ago
great fold
yak182 10 months ago
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT???!!!))
HeckBuk1 10 months ago
Hahahhaha, epic fold
vvoozer 10 months ago
lol he was free rolling in the beginning to make his profit then once he lucked out and made 140k or w,e he not only had possibly 14x or higher his current bank account and liquid net worth but also the very good possibility of being the highest winning cannon of the season and getting the tournament prize package of jet setting around the world playing in very high buy in tournaments, potentially making millions more. AA is the hand you can lose the biggest pots with, he'd jeopardize it all.
SN011GlobeTrot 10 months ago 2
That is just lucky, folding AA preflop with 2 players involved is a mistake....at least a call to see a flop....if he didn't like to play out of position. you can't say that's good play...
danmoldoveanu 10 months ago
@danmoldoveanu Pot-limit preflop........
AWDracer 10 months ago
post-flop or pre-flop.. title is not clear :P
sean19922k7 10 months ago
@sean19922k7 maybe if u watched the video u would find out. LOL duhhh
9wolves2007 10 months ago
I dont see how folding AA pre can ever be the right decission, and saying it was right because the flop came 66x with Laak holding 66 is just totally resultsoriented and retarded. This is a no brainer reraise IMO as even in PL Hold'em you can still protect your hand well enough
cordonsport095 10 months ago
lol funny how he folded A A and then the other guy flopped quad 6's. lmao
chridouk 10 months ago
Ok. I finally found something he really did wrong: looking at his cards when he plans not to play any hand.
theonlytomatoonearth 10 months ago 2
I think in his spot, alot of people should fold.. AA is not 100% win, it also is very hard to play vs heavy aggresive.. Its best to just hold onto your winnings in his spot.
For the pros however, snap raise and go buck..
bohemia187 10 months ago 2
@bohemia187 LOL, so then don't sit down at a poker table, cause no hand is 100% pre-flop. He folded because he was already winning and had a profit and didn't want to lose it.
lokhtar 10 months ago
@bohemia187 You could always see the flop for $8k. Folding is the worst play he made at the time. If he saw the flop and it was 6K6 then he can let it go. But what if the flop was AA6 or AA4 he couldve made a lot more. the LEAST he could've done was at least see the flop. If you flop short of the nuts just let it go
Pejarox7620 10 months ago
@Pejarox7620 I dont think hes getting the odds to call just to hit quads on the flop.. its not going to happen nearly enough and if he does get a set of aces, hes going to play it so scared that hes not going to make any money and prob end up folding if a straight or flush hits by river against aggression becuz everyone knows hes not calling without the nuts
bohemia187 10 months ago
@bohemia187 Thats true, but what is $8k when you have 140k already. He went on the show to gamble, he could've at least played AA for $8k...
Pejarox7620 10 months ago
WOW WHAT A GREAT FUCKING FOLD THAT IS CRAZY
iorilamia 10 months ago
Do you realise that if he called and the flop was 6-A-6 he would lose all of his money? :P Greed kills.
Iizardkingz 10 months ago
awful poker play, amazingly disciplined logical decision
WuTangShogunEST 10 months ago
why is looking at his cards? if your gonna fold aces then dont even look.
sylvesterstain 10 months ago 2
That fold is BS. Nobody flops AA preflop unless they are involved in a fix.
Tehui1974 11 months ago
laak looks pretty good like tht tbh.
PikaVaughanchu 11 months ago
very idiot player
LArticolo31 11 months ago
1:21 WHATTTT lol
Taigirr 11 months ago
why not just call n see!?
then again ive never been up that much money so wat do i kno!
anois08 11 months ago
Id do the same if i was up 150 K on that show, but then again i wouldnt be able to fold aces and would of lost a lot of profit
BarryNolan 11 months ago
i can understand him folding it pre flop, cause he doesn't want to get in a really tough situation where the money that completely changes his life will fuck his mind up and he can end up losing his profit...but i guess he could at least call those 2k to flop the nuts or fold it...
vlada92serbia 11 months ago
wow. went from moron to genius.
thatguywithnothing 11 months ago
Lol, stop/pause the video, then click play again, and keep pressing 4
UndercoverLdn 11 months ago
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UndercoverLdn 11 months ago
he fucking read the deck
GGRSC 11 months ago 2
@GGRSC ha ha he's a wizard!
fabianronaldo 11 months ago
limit pre-flop so he couldn.t just shove. That money was massive for him and I think the loose cannon with the largest profit got a prize or a seat into a big tournament or something. Can't remember properly. So obviously long run this is bad but in that spot you can justify it easily enough
rochey24 11 months ago
damn, what a fold.
good read by the lc
Wa1TandB1eeD 11 months ago
@Wa1TandB1eeD who did he read though?
Gottinho 11 months ago
@Gottinho jk
Wa1TandB1eeD 11 months ago
Remember, The Big Game is Pot Limit pre-flop. He could not have gone all in before the flop and after the flop he was beat.
He wanted to protect his profit because that was a life changing amount of money for him and his family. He was not going to have another opportunity to make that kind of money in that short of time.
gadzooks64 1 year ago 62
@gadzooks64
In that case he should have just called and folded if an ace didn't come on the flop.
ramyg4 11 months ago 2
@gadzooks64 It still made no sense Laak would have folded if he raised. Scared money.
greenchef6 11 months ago
@greenchef6
And how would you know? It's PL preflop, a 3bet wouldn't be that big... And ofcourse he plays scared money, the guy is a schoolteacher... this is so much money to him, why would he gamble with it? If he 3bet and laak would've called, he would've lost 100K...
UndercoverLdn 11 months ago
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laistar 9 months ago
@gadzooks64
seen under that aspects and with all the circumstances it's an absolut legit fold ... even if it was no limit i would not risk my winnings going all in before the flop
TomiAk47 9 months ago
@gadzooks64 I dont know the guy, dont know if for example he absolutely needs the money for something specific, but other than that if the money is so important so is the opportunity he had there to make more money. He will not have the same shot again he had in this show to make that kind of money. I would just go for it unless i had like a big mortgage to pay or something and was making very little money otherwise. And he shouldnt have told them bc now hes not getting paid if he plays a hand.
crockett616 8 months ago
@crockett616 yep, and you woulda lost it all
FATCACAK 7 months ago
@gadzooks64 Yeah I suppose risking your money on the best hand in the game is pretty stupid.....
koolzy1 7 months ago 2
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Trias88 7 months ago
@gadzooks64 it is potlimit, but AA has a 85% chance of winning against any 2 cards, and a 76% against the best 2 cards
jiamonx2 6 months ago
@gadzooks64 awfull fold end of
1980slh 6 months ago
If he didn't want to risk it he could've went all-in, made 5 thousand dollars, everyone would OBVIOUSLY fold since the LC is making a huge profit and doesn't want to take any chance, so everyone would know he has aces at this point and fold.
PsionicStormed 1 year ago
what season and episode please?
StephenJayGarcia 1 year ago
funny thing is, if he reraise pre flop.....laak might fold with Jason next to act.
and @cam0ka, you said he does not want to risk his profit, will if he fold AA like that everytime he is winning, then he is simply loosing profit. its that simple.....
dozentcare 1 year ago
if you dont know this show pls dont comment. the guy will have whatever he has more than 100.000$ and he is already winning. they are playing last a few hands and he did not want to risk his profit. its that simple...
cam0ka 1 year ago
omfg... this is insane. what a horrible play that turned out to be insanely lucky.
101111101101 1 year ago
Hahaha press 4 over and over again!!!!!!
zadlo002 1 year ago
ooooooooooooooooooooooo my god, folds ace's and the flop it's quards lol, What a fold !!
aksulojik 1 year ago
I'm having a hard time comprehending what is going on...Phil Laak is that you? Folding AA preflop, quads on the flop...I'm SO confused...
Wazzamazizzi 1 year ago
why is everyone calling this a great play??? It's an awful play, if he raised big pre flop as he should have Laak would have folded the sixes and he'd had taken the pot
stharpun 1 year ago
@stharpun its P O T LIMIT HOLD EM PRE FLOP you piece of worthless dog shit. set yourself on fire.
DuellMeNoob 1 year ago
@stharpun yeah right, he profited like 200k+ thats way more then the average salary for him. Good for him, good job folding and letting go of your blinds / antes. He did what he had to do
the3bigreddevils 1 year ago
@stharpun shut the f up.
not a single person in the comments section said this play was great, not even anyone in the show, you just assumed so you could write your shitty comment and sound like you know what you're talking about
idiot
Mangosuxcok 1 year ago
why is everyone calling this a great play??? It's an awful play, if he raised big pre flop as he should have Laak would have folded the sixes and he'd had taken the pot
stharpun 1 year ago
soul read on what the flop would be
tcdie 1 year ago
W T F !!!!!
Ariguzblak 1 year ago
This guy is a prick the only thing I can think of is he realised how much he had AA writen on his head when he looked . LOL the flop shuda been AA
Gold7711 1 year ago
unreal.
Airborn0ms 1 year ago
wtf??? no wonder this show is fuckin retarded...
CaptCoochKicker 1 year ago
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CaptCoochKicker 1 year ago
That sure enough is a pretty easy blindsteal btw.
WaspSnG 1 year ago
WHAT THE HELL, IS THAT PHI LAAK?!
WaspSnG 1 year ago 66
@WaspSnG He got into an ATV accident like 2 weeks before this, and he had most of his hair shaved off because of a head injury.
BloodFalcon001 7 months ago