How Do i Deal With Folding The Winning Hand?

EmmaEP

i played in the 6:45AM Freeroll Tournament this morning and i folded 2 starting hands that would of won. This has happened before to me and i am not good at dealing with it. it annoys and frustrates me and it sometimes effects the following hands that i play. i think that is called tilt in poker terms?

Did i make the right decision folding these 2 hands? and how do you deal with folding the winning hand?

Player	Action	Cards	Amount	Pot	Balance
EmmaEP	Small blind		100.00	100.00	1750.00
madmoney19	Big blind		200.00	300.00	1800.00
	Your hole cards	8 9
Pimbo	Fold
Djmorris	Fold
dizzle21	Call		200.00	500.00	1575.00
EmmaEP	Call		100.00	600.00	1650.00
madmoney19	All-in		1800.00	2400.00	0.00
dizzle21	All-in		1575.00	3975.00	0.00
EmmaEP	Fold
madmoney19	Unmatched bet		225.00	3750.00	225.00
madmoney19	Show	A K
dizzle21	Show	K J
Flop
		6 7 10
Turn
		5
River
		6
madmoney19	Win	Pair of 6s	3750.00		3975.00

and

Player	Action	Cards	Amount	Pot	Balance
madmoney19	Small blind		100.00	100.00	3875.00
Pimbo	Big blind		200.00	300.00	400.00
	Your hole cards	6 Q
Djmorris	Fold
Shotgun87	Fold
EmmaEP	Fold
madmoney19	Call		100.00	400.00	3775.00
Pimbo	All-in		400.00	800.00	0.00
madmoney19	Call		400.00	1200.00	3375.00
madmoney19	Show	9 A
Pimbo	Show	A J
Flop
		Q 10 6
Turn
		2
River
		9
madmoney19	Win	Pair of 9s	1200.00		4575.00

mumsie

When you folded them they were not winning hands-so it was right to fold them.

You dont look at what you could have won in that spot on that hand, Its how them hands would fair over thousands of flops over thousands of hands, and they would lose you far more than you could possibly win.

If you never folded them hands preflop and always saw a flop, you would find, that you lost much more money than you won over the year.

HAYSIE

You can only post one hand per post.
If you wish to post 2 hands you have to do 2 posts.

Doubleme

the important thing is making decisions that will make you profit in the long run. no one is psychic if that were a thing we could have a different conversation but its not. I have had plenty of incidents where I folded and saw I would have won if I had not done so.

I also have had enough cases where I folded when I should not have done and I would have lost had I not.

mumsie

Doubleme said:

the important thing is making decisions that will make you profit in the long run. no one is psychic if that were a thing we could have a different conversation but its not. I have had plenty of incidents where I folded and saw I would have won if I had not done so.

I also have had enough cases where I folded when I should not have done and I would have lost had I not.

Well said, thats what I was trying to say.

EmmaEP

@mumsie and @Doubleme Thanks for your advice. i guess i made the right decision folding.

@HAYSIE i wondered why the 2nd hand didn't post properly. Thanks for letting me know. i will only post 1 hand in future posts.

JammyFker

Making the right decision > worrying about what we could have hit/flopped/won.

Just make the best decision in the moment will work out long term @EmmaEP and try and let things like a badbeat go in as little time as possible will make way for successful long term poker.

Keeping your emotions in check will also help and the more we practice these simple techniques in time they should improve and your ability to deal with them will get better the often you do the same things.

Insert some perspective - War is going on around the world. We just lost a hand of poker or folded the best hand.

Regain your focus. The better focused you are on the next hand helps u play your best poker

Mark hands and then look at them in post session analysis instead of at the time.

Rinse and repeat...


Good luck out there and good luck in 2025

HAYSIE

EmmaEP said:

@mumsie and @Doubleme Thanks for your advice. i guess i made the right decision folding.

@HAYSIE i wondered why the 2nd hand didn't post properly. Thanks for letting me know. i will only post 1 hand in future posts.

No probs.

EmmaEP

@JammyFker Thanks for your advice. Thanks. Good luck and good luck in 2025 to you too