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www.poker.ladbrokes.com – Often in poker it can be difficult to put down a strong hand, but sometimes you simply have to trust your feeling that you are beaten, even if you have waited for the hand a long time.

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I was recently involved in an unraised pot with (J,8) and saw a flop of (Js,Qs,Jh). The two spades and the straight draw were my main concern when my opponent flat called a raise on the flop. The turn brought a 10 of spades and one of the worst cards that could have hit the board, and when my raise on the turn was met with a sizeable reraise, I knew I was beaten, and folded. My opponent did indeed show two spades, and one of the other players who had previously looked at me as if I was mad when I folded three jacks face up, seemed amazed when my opponent showed a flush. Needless to say, if he was in my position, his reluctance to fold a strong hand would have cost him all of his chips.

Generally, I would not advise players to simply fold every time a dangerous card hits the board, as there has to be a thought process beforehand leading you to the coclusion you are beaten. In the case of my hand, I know my opponent quite well and thought it unlikely on the flop that he would call my raise with a weak queen, and he would have raised preflop with (A,Q). I concluded he was probably drawing to a hand, but the queen was still a possibility up until the moment I raised him on the turn when the 10 of spades fell. There was no way he would continue in the hand with a queen, and the moment he reraised, it was clear he had made his straight or flush.
Almost any hand can be folded in the right circumstances, and if you feel you are beaten, you should never be afraid of folding. It is better to fold the best hand occassionally than to call for all your chips and lose them.