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  • im split here part of me is saying its a good fold HOWEVER had he had raised it would 66 and 44s call given you raise maybe 5* but would such a big raise be worth a small profit vs a big risk... you should all know by now that aces can be beaten but throwing them away preflop idk still... if the flop had come with aces i truely do beileve 90% of you would be caling him a donk and a tard esp if two aces came out... overall it for him in his situation was a good fold any other time it would b dumb

  • its lockn up the money,why risk it ,gr8 fold

  • Pretty disgusting how some poker players only think in terms of probability and chips, and not what130k means to a working class family.

  • @nioor Exactly, I am a poker player too and I like his play.

  • If he played it the others would instantly know what he had... there would be no point. They would either bluff him out on a scary board or draw out on him. This way he's not gambling with money secured for his family.

  • ahahah if you look in to his eyes you can see its empty in there

  • That's one GREAT fold!

  • im not that good to fold pre flop

  • They say poker it's all about knowing when to fold !

  • BEST FOLD EVER!!!!!

  • "He's thinking of step pedaling"

    ? What does that mean?

  • he did a very good decision

  • @exclushunedoara

    no he didn't, it was a horrible decision

  • Every single one of you who are hating on the guy are fucking retarded.He is a grown ass man who has absolutely no bussines playing high stakes poker.So he won a freeroll and is now in a cash game with high stake regulars.He booked a good win that for a man his age are LIFE changing money ( for him and his family ).Who the fuck cares if IN THE LONG RUN that is a bad play.He was there for like what 150 hands or sth?.He booked a win and wanted to lock it down, that smart and adult thinink.

  • @Diavolo222 cussing every 3 words makes you look super cool

  • @Diavolo222 just be quiet.

  • @Diavolo222 Agree, in 99% of situations this would be retarted. This is the 1% of the time that this makes sense. He was trying to win the money he already had in front of him, not to mention the passport for the top winner of the season. This isn't some guy playing 2-5 at the local casino.

  • He's either retarded, or he's a real psychic!

  • wow and now he feels clever... he better fucking not though. he should have raised massively and deterred small shitty pairs. thats what happens, tehy flop quads.

  • he is clever!

  • the guys says: "you can't make fun of me now for laying down pocket Aces pre flop" @ 3:15. Thumbs up if you think that guy is retarded for not raising pre flop... what a retard

  • I think he lay down his hands once he realized he forgot his poker face.

  • That's wild

  • to fold pocket aces..dumb as hell--but it worked out like a charm for him--unreal

  • lool im gamblin with aces all day

  • @superwebnoob u'r right. He should have go all in with open cards :P and he is taking a small pot :P cause no one sane would call him.

  • you guys dont get it hes some poor school teacher who had just doubled through phil hellmuth and was sitting on a $140,000 profit...which was probably more than 3x his ANNUAL salary so 3 years of work in one night...and he said he was gonna lock that up and fold every hand because the "loose cannon" must play the whole 150 hands so thats what he did and it worked for him

  • Which episode is this...wow. It was a wrong/dumb move but it paid off, like many other times in poker wrong decisions make for the biggest pots.

  • what an absolute DONK! so why he s looking his hand,if he s folding aces? it means he s folding all hands, fucking donkey loser! If he s scared, he moves all in, and take a little pot, but dont lose preflop with aces, this is so pathetic, fucking idiot ever seen!!!!!!

  • I don't mind that he's playing scared money from this point on, just because he wants to lock up his profit... but at least don't make it so obvious. Now your blinds getting raised 100% of the time...

  • Donk! .. A good player loses something in this hand .. but wins a hell of a lot more in the long run. Scared money on a table with pro's .. lol, he may have not lost this hand but losing all his money is inevitable with play like that.

  • @DarkTenka maybee u didnt get it, this is NOT the long run...

  • @maxkorsoer lol? .. it is ALWAYS the long run .. you ALWAYS factor in the long run or you are a bad player.

  • WOWW  RESPECT

  • fake for idiots!!!

  • @nessitane It's not fake. I saw this episode when it came out. The guy won a ton of money off of Hellmuth and he just wanted to get out of there with his 240,000 dollars of profit.

  • incredible...amazing hot this man know to fold?

  • If he would have raised early pre flop he won have won though.

  • @Number1ricky I doubt it because he couldn't have shoved there. The game they were playing was pot limit preflop. So, a good player would have called a raise there, seen quads and taken his stack.

  • Folded aces. Quads to Laak on the flop. Statistically, it was a terrible fold. In this case, it was a FANTASTIC fold. That's all there is to it.

  • how can anyone justify this fold this guy is a total retard i dont care what his situation was his profit should have been taken off him for doing this

  • Given the situation that is a conservative but smart fold, good play!

  • What a fu cking idiot

  • all in would make them fold

  • @masterm01 but thats a stupid move with 250k or whatever he's got, he didn't wanna get beat so he folded. he's done well.

  • @masterm01 pre-flop only pot-limit rule was accepted

  • If I tell you I have an unevenly-weighted coin 51% on tails and 49% on heads, and you can choose take a bet of 1 Billion dollars with Bill Gates. If you lose the bet, you will have to work all your life to pay back Bill Gates and live a poor man's life forever; if you win the bet, you can keep 1 Billion dollars. How many of you will actually take that bet? The same goes through this guy's mind, I believe.

  • Why are people are defending this. The guy is amateur, and yes he gets to keep the money he makes. He wasn't being asked to call huge bet. He was being asked to call a $1,600 raise for him. He had a 49.2% chance of winning with that hand. Is $1,600 a lot for a guy? Sure, but it's only like a week of wages, and he's got a 49% chance of winning a pot for $5,200 pre-flop.

    Think about it he had a 50.8% chance of losing a wk's sal. but a 49.2% chance of winning sal. for 3.25 wks. no brainer

  • @Biswalt $1,600 is like a month of wages for me! haha

  • its weird but amazing. he must have seen the quads coming somehow.

  • he is an idiot

  • ну доехадо - да. но скинуть ТУЗЫ на префлопе... .... пока такие ребята есть - покер будет жить.

  • @sgornostay

    Вообще-то тузов народ разыгрывать не умеет. Частенько попадая в сет забираю у АА весь стек. Бездумно грузят фишки совершенно не думая, с чем их могут колить.

  • I am amazed of all the morons trying to justify this guys idiotic play.

  • Stupid moron, stupid stupid stupid stupid fucking moron

  • wwwwhhhhhaaaaattttttt ..? ;)

  • If he made a big bet, evryone should fold after him because they know he will be playing really tight. I think he could have won that hand to be honest

  • nice move

  • yes,it is stupid call with quads, but fold with ace's before a floop is also unnormal :DDD

  • What the hell??? Calling with 4 's .. Real stupid, he wasnt kidding, bet he came close to raising!

  • "whaaaaaaat???????"

  • i had AA a lot of times ... i honestly lost everytime i played them. Even after folding them, it turn out i wld have lost ;) Im honest! Some kind of crazy ..

  • how many times does pocket aces win the hand. If you don't hit the flop, all you have is still aces, when 2-3 can beat you if they hit the flop.

    Not saying that I would've folded preflop, I would've raised all in lol and hope Laak folds

  • @EaglesNation24 it´s pot limit preflop

  • hahaha that was awesome

  • I would have played it but I wouldn't risk a large amount of money so it might have went differently had the cannon stayed in. The cannon would have lost about 14k on that hand but they might have bet smaller to keep the cannon in until the river.

  • its pot limit preflop you retards

  • just go all in, 66 would fold

    

  • BEST READ EVER

  • all in, run it 4 times if called? reduce variance and you're +EV

  • u mad brah?

  • ala shet .... de la k se salvo el tio

  • "this guy is making stuff up" -_-

    *watches this clip after the game*

    ... :O LOOOL

  • there is NO reason to fold that!

    when you dont want to lose that money then dont play high stakes poker!!

  • @bomber2909 omg stfu do you know the situation here? obviously not - please stop blabbing like an idiot.

  • @FormerlyKnownAsShun then tell me .. what is the situation

  • Freerolled to get in, gets to keep 140k if he doesnt play another hand... Prob has never seen more than 50k in his own hands... Why risk it? Careerwise this is a smart laydown, that 140k represents his new bankroll, if you walked from that game with 140k in your pocket, would your next move be to put it all on the table on HSPoker??? Dont think so, playing any hand here is the same thing imo

  • Mother of fuck

  • as it turns out thats the greatest fold ever lol still would never ever do that pre flop

  • Bullets are overrated.

  • Cheaters...

  • WHAAAAAAAT (cit.)

  • lol his name describes him perfectly FISHMAN

  • i think the show told the party poker dealer to set that hand up for him to lose. .

    like such a perfect flop for aces  6 K 6 . he would of lost everything .

    moral of the story don't play on party poker ITS RIGGED

  • i dont know... there was no reason to fold the hand, the pot was so small it looks like he knew laak would get quads... really strange

  • @GoldenBoyXCM since when has 4800 been small dont forget hes not rich hes a teacher who was in profit he had a few hands to play till he could leave otherwise he would have already left. The way it works is the 100k satck isnt his but he keeps the profit

  • @jcampbell97 there was a small raise and a call- u have no idea about poker kid-mercier cant believe what he sees fucking rigged

  • you guys who think hes an idiot are fking retards. There has to be a reson why you would fold aces right? no one and i mean no one would fold this hand in a cash game in normal circumstances and you all should know that, but in your dumb narrow minds he folded them because hes stupid

  • ok ask yourselfs this would a guy playing poker on telvision fold his aces for no other reason, than he stupid? no he obviously would not. He was about 50k up didnt buy in like the pros he only keeps his profit anything up to the 100k buy in would not be his. he folded because it was pot limit preflop he could only raise to 9900 which means lakk and mercerier are getting great odds to call and make a set. no one in the right mind would want to get in a pot worth 50k if they only make 30 k a year

  • Everyone criticizing this guy clearly don't know his story or are just very rich and really don't care. This guy is just a high school teacher or something who got a chance to sit down with the pros with 100K in front of him. After 145 hands played he's up what he makes in 5 years working hard and is 5 hands away to book a life changing win. STFU ! He didn't care he wasn't making the correct play, he was thinking about sending his children to a good university !!

  • @vruuuuk hahahaa yeah sure idiot

  • @vruuuuk you're pretty good at making up stories, i give you that. the dude is a multimillionaire lottery winner

  • @JohnF30Music wanna put your money where your mouth is ? Tho you're right if you consider having the nuts against Helmuth a lottery...

  • @vruuuuk But is was just a small bet of 2000, and not a all in for all his money?!

  • @DimmuBorgir123456789 Yes, it was indeed. My guess is that his line of thought like "I'll never be able to play this hand properly with scared money... I'm to afraid to raise now, I'll never check/raise the flop nor will I ever call a big bet on the river... Meh, Fold!" ... Also, this guy clearly had a plan after winning all the money which was as simple as: FOLD! Since he folded the entire last episode, around 30 hands

  • @vruuuuk still the guy completely lacks of balls

    

  • @grrrrrrrrrrrreg it takes balls to care about other people more than yourself. He shoulve played that hand according to everyone but he had the balls to fold it for his kids.

  • @Shiaguy yeah but if i were his kid i'd rather my father has balls then i have money

    if you know what i mean

  • @vruuuuk Can you tell me where I can find the whole episode(s)/Story?

  • @tehjoch at pokerstars.tv, its the Big Game

  • @vruuuuk thanks

  • @vruuuuk so much backup for this one. ofc in the majority of hands this was non profitable play. but you gotta remember the loose cannon is stacked, he has a lot of $ save if he just folds himself through.

    and he is clearly the worst player there, he can be outplayed easily with aces, being in a scared money mindset, let there be a draw on board and he can be fooled into committing or folding the better hand. in this case obviously he was outflopped already. so. fair game bro.

  • @Dynaty20 I don't know if I understood your point, he is stacked with 100K, but he only gets to keep whatever he wins above the 100k, he cannot fold every hand and take 80k home... atm of this particular hand, he was up 150k, meaning he had 250k in front of him, but the initial 100k are not his.

  • @Dynaty20: What do you mean he can be easily outplayed with aces?!? Don't down play this guys ability to play poker even if he's an amateur. Remember he only had that huge pile of chips because he spanked Phil Hellmuth earlier in the tourney.

  • @vruuuuk sorry but this is bullshit. he wouldn't be there if he wouldn't be or at least pretend to be a good player. and to fold AA preflop is ALWAYS as wack move... if he tried to grow his stack for a good university then he shouldn't have played like a fish and fold the nuts

  • @arbeitslos123456 he won his way there by winning a free tournament at pokerstars, not much skill about winning one of those... again, he wasn't playing to grow his ego nor to grow his popularity.

  • @vruuuuk: Yeah, but at the same time he was up some $129k in profit. It was $1,600 for him to call the raise (since he was sb). He's got the best pre-flop odds, the best any other player can do with him pre-flop is spilt the pot. So he SHOULD try to see the flop. If the flop comes 2c, Ah, Ad, then he'd know he had the best hand since no-one would be able to get a straight flush.

    Think about it. He's got at least a 95% chance of winning up through the river if it flops two aces.

  • @Biswalt well, I would be the first one to call him a huge fish if he just called pre.flop, but if you think that's the correct play... Also, I don't see him folding AA after that flop, if Jason didn't fold that hand, how would someone fold AA ? Also, there is a better chance of him being beat in the flop than flopping two aces, lol xD

  • @vruuuuk: I'm not saying he should've just called. It's irrelevant what happened after the flop. He didn't know what was going to happen after the flop. Going into the flop he had a 49% chance of winning the hand which he knew were the best pre-flop odds. He was only being asked to call a $1,600 raise, and he's got $129k in profit. Yes the odds are that he will still lose the hand (50.2% he will lose), that's poker. But there were no cards with better odds to win, and the bet was small

  • @Biswalt well probably at this point he wasn't about maximizing his EV, but making sure that he actually brings his profit home, sklansky dollars don't buy you much.

  • @mourantell: I get that, but you've got the nuts pre-flop. It's only going to cost you $1,600 out of $129k to see the flop. You should at least see the flop. Like I said, what if that had been 2 aces and an off suit 7. In that case you know you'll win against everything except a straight flush, so why not pay the $1,600? I understand he's trying to keep his winnings, but he can't gamble with $1,600 out of $129k in profit? That's absurd... live a little.

  • @Biswalt well I wouldn't fold either, but that guy with his mindset at that point didn't really make such a huge mistake. If he is contemplating folding pf, then after a call he would be very easy to be scared off of any hand as his biggest fear is losing a big pot and I am sure the other players know that. If you take into considerations the number of times he will fold the best hand after the flop, it's not that bad at all. He simply realized that he can't play poker properly at this stage.

  • If you fold with AA preflop then quit playing poker.. geez.. Although he was lucky that he would loose.. But again.. If you fold with AA then what would you go in with? wtf..

  • 2:30 "AIYAAAH" lol

  • well pocket aces how to fold? flop gaved him quads but in 100000x hands u will get this maybe

    so how he can be proud like this and laughing after the round like " i knew it,,, thats why i fold aces "

    retarded bastard look on t his face

  • @dibs478 clearly I did.. I was stating the fact that it was a terrible play to fold pocket aces pre flop against two players. Nothing to do what happened after the that. It was still bad play.

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  • its a bad fold if u play on your limit obv .

    if u have life changing money in front of u , and your a bad postflop player its an easy muck

  • @MaxN91 yes i completely agree, and how many times do u win a monster with aces anyway? Wasn't worth it for the guy because off the odds against aces, too much obviously.

  • it's a cashgame so it's never a correct fold.

    If you're in a tourney and want to get a higher pay then maybe.

  • WTF What an idiot! Worst fold ever.

  • @StewartWood88 Clearly you didn't watch the rest of the video.

  • to everyone who says he might a stupid fold, try to imagine this guys EV/Variance graphic

  • Nice read!

  • this guy is a total jerk and shouldnt be at this table..fucking idiot

  • The only thing I don't understand or that I'd have done different in his shoes would have been to not look at my cards if I decide to fold my way to the end of the 150 hands. Just show them to the camera and fold. The "what if..." play can be done later too.

  • only in a million hands

  • terrible laydown. got really lucky though

  • @let88it88be lol ok "poker pro" get a life

  • @let88it88be really????????????

  • @crackz123 really??????????

  • In hindsight good play lol, otherwise don't really know why. If he was in, probably would've lost alot, maybe putting laak on the King. But should only really fold Aces on the bubbles of big tournaments.

  • how?!!! 

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  • I don't understand...

    To all the people saying he was smart to fold,

    OK... so you don't want to 3B and get stuck to the pot, but why not then just call and--and set mine? Now of course this hand wouldn't have worked out, but he certainly could've just played it very passively and folded to any heat. You say that he wanted to walk away with his profit, but how can you turn down the chance at MORE profit when you have THE BEST starting hand in poker? You have to look at the flop.

  • look at these smile...somehow HE knew he would lose...O.o AMAZING

  • i saw the fold and I don't believe it!.... omg !!!!!,but than the flop is coming and I figured .....omg!!!!

  • If he had enough profit so he got out of the table but folding AA pre flop,so bad play !

  • I hate how this show is pot limit.

  • come on are u kiddin me??

    he supposed to went there to play..

    jesus

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  • best fold ever he wouldve gotten murdered!

  • If he didn't want to play aces he should've bet 50k or something outlandish like that that would've made them lay their hands down.

  • @Cdub2k The game is pot limit preflop so he can't raise enough to get rid of all the opponents.

  • I wouldnt have recognized laak if they didnt say his name and list it, why the hell does he have that weird hairdew, charity? lost bet? very unrecognizable, lol.

  • whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat ;)

  • 3:10 lol :-D

  • The question is.. what if he had the pair of 6s?

  • Uhh... still aces!

  • is that phil laak WTF happened to him?? did jennifer leave him? LOL

  • ‎-Throws them away...!!!

    -Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa­aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat??? :P 

  • Some player just cannot get off AA preflop.

    You have to fold it if you know you're gonna get outflopped.

    That was genius !

  • what you gonna call pre flop if you fold AA ???? scared money as f*ck

  • @kalorication

    dumbass

  • @UndercoverLdn now i know that if i play against you, i re raise you, you gonna fold your aces little stupid dumbest ass in the WORLD EVER !!! and don't answer that you got nothing to say stupid dumber ever, see you in the pokerroom :)

  • @kalorication

    Lol....

  • @kalorication

    You obviously are too stupid to realize why he folded aces.

  • the fuck.....? id keep that shit a secret.

  • people are saying nice read lol who can read something in that situation i think he had a bad feeling and he fold ,remeber is pot limite if it was nl he would raise and re raise and do everything before the flop.premonitian lol.but any away very strange move but he was rite kkkkk

  • Two people in the pot in front of him with one left to go behind him. The odds of winning with AA vs 3 random hands is about 62%. He had the potential to lose his ass on this hand. I absolutely support his fold here.

    Ironically if you CAN'T fold bullets pre-flop, regardless of the circumstances, you don't belong at any poker table. Except mine.

  • @mdtalley In a straight up cash game you never fold aces preflop, period. Unless maybe the stakes are too high for your bankroll, which would mean that you shouldn't be playing at that table in the first place. When your put in your money with pocket rockets, you get a positive expected value, and that's what poker's about. Tourney is a different story. Given the circumstances, Fishman made the right move here, regardless of the result. He also folded KK a few hands after.

  • @Sycsa The EV against 3 or 4 random opponents is much different than against a single opponent. He absolutely made the right call here. You have to figure at least one other person probably has one of your aces, and there's a possibility suited connectors out there too.

  • @mdtalley Yeah, we agree on Fishman making the right fold. Still, if you play your aces right, you almost never have to go up against three opponents, and even if you're facing three other pocket pairs or suited connectors, you're still above 50% to win. Pot limit preflop does make it harder to isolate opponents, but it's very rare in NL cash games and a rule specifically applied here because of the loose cannon concept.

  • nice read from the bald guy

  • wow, i cant believe how many ppl are this fucking stupid. This game is pot-limit pre-flop.. u cant shove. Its to force these amateurs to play the hands post-flop. Dont u think he would have shoved if he could?

  • Check out my video "Howard Coward". A shortfilm about a Howard you might know, who is 1000 times more of a nit than this guy