officially the greatest preflop laydown in the history of poker

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t400 (4 handed)converter (http://www.selachian.com/tools/bisonconverter/hhconverter.cgi)

Button (t5105)
Hero (t4925)
BB (t3040)
UTG (t430)

Preflop: Hero is SB with 5/images/graemlins/spade.gif, J/images/graemlins/club.gif.
<font color="#CC3333">UTG raises to t405</font>, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, Hero calls t205, <font color="#666666">BB folds</font>.

just to let that sink in, when the game was 4-handed (top three pay) the BB already had $400 in the pot and folded to a monster all-in raise of $5.

[deathpotato]

I almost did something very similar by accident today /images/graemlins/blush.gif

[flyingmoose]

He had to be playing like 85 tables and just forgot to look at the amount of the raise. That or he read Cloutier's book and realized that no hand is worth playing for any price ever. Or he's a huge idiot. Really, it could be anything.

[Slim Pickens]

Maybe he had the runs.

[applejuicekid]

reverse implied odds?

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reverse implied odds?

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Ummm...

[Freudian]

I saw a guy while ITM start the hand with 205 chips, post BB of 200 and fold to a raise.

[unreal_nh]

i cant think of a hand that i wouldnt fold in that situation.

very nice laydown indeed /images/graemlins/wink.gif

ummmm...maybe he was gone and the "post and fold" button clicked. I've seen things like this all the time /images/graemlins/confused.gif

[bluefeet]

yesterday, i saw a very short stack fold close to 1/2 his SB chips to the big-stack BB....that had just "sat out" after the last hand. it wasn't an easy decision apparently - he thought about it for quite some time /images/graemlins/wink.gif

[durron597]

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yesterday, i saw a very short stack fold close to 1/2 his SB chips to the big-stack BB....that had just "sat out" after the last hand. it wasn't an easy decision apparently - he thought about it for quite some time /images/graemlins/wink.gif

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I could see at least thinking about folding with 32o... and then I would curse the universe and call anyway /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[bluefeet]

aaah, but BB was "sitting out" - a free double-up w/ a push. certainly an "any 2" moment /images/graemlins/blush.gif

[Nicholasp27]

how fast did he fold?

if immediate, he may have had check/fold checked

however, with a 430 stack, i would never check that button (never do anyway)...30 chips is, of course, worth calling

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30 chips is, of course, worth calling

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there was a $25 ante, so he only had $405 to push with, meaning the raise was only $5

[raptor517]

ive done that probably 20 times. happened a lot when i first started playing tons of tables. i fixed it. no more. holla

[ZeroPointMachine]

So short stack wins the hand makes a comeback and you bust out 4th?

BTW I'm guilty of making this mistake because of distractions once in a great while.

I made this mistake yesterday. I was the BB, which was $400, someone went all-in and it was $195 more to call. I had like T4s and folded. I didn't watch the stacks. Of course I busted out in fourth place some hands later after I pushed twice, got called both times and lost 'em both. /images/graemlins/smile.gif