Making A Great Fold.....

In my opinion being able to make a good fold is one of most difficult skills to learn in poker, even more so than making a great call.  Anyone can call down a bet from another player in the hope he is bluffing however, when you have a really strong hand it is much more difficult to fold that when your opponent has a slightly better hand.  Aces Vs Kings for example pre flop, how many of us can say that they have folded Kings before the flop when they have been re-raised by Aces!!  I know when I first started playing over 10 years ago now, I folded Kings pre-flop, I’m not quite sure what the other guy had as he never showed but these days I’m almost definitely never folding Kings pre-flop, at the end of the day even if your opponent has Aces and all the chips go in before the flop, you still have two Kings you can hit!!!

Anyway thinking about making a great fold reminded me of one of my favourite hands in poker which saw Roberto Romanello making an amazing fold, where he hits a ‘disguised’ full house and manages to fold to a bigger full house.  The beauty of this is that the bets are not even that big, and 95% of the time you are winning the hand with what he folds, take a look here..... AMAZING FOLD VIDEO

This was one of the occasions where a great fold was rewarded however, poker is not always so kind, here is another video which reflects what I was talking about before where Kings were folded pre-flop.  The decision was the correct one at the time as someone did have Aces, but poker can be a cruel game, see what I mean.....  Right or Wrong Fold

Folding hands also differs in a Cash Game Vs Tournament play, I think folding is far more important in a tournament as a good fold can keep your tournament life alive where as in cash you can always re-load either way though making a good fold is a very difficult skill to learn.