[MUSIC PLAYING]
Dodging a disaster.
Great lay down from
Daniel [INAUDIBLE].
Fading a flip.
He does indeed let it go.
Going with your gut.
Sometimes you just
have to let a hand go.
These are our top
five fantastic folds.
Number five is from the
EPT11 Malta final table,
where Dominic Panka
came close to winning
his second title on the tour.
[INAUDIBLE] [? Monturi ?]
had other ideas.
But we were impressed
with this play from Panka.
Panka's got ten's
in the small blind.
Dominic's going to be
three betting here more
often than a hypochondriac
checks WebMD.
So this is a re-raise
to a $850,000.
And Monturi's got
queens in the bag.
Oh, no.
Really bad news
for Dominic Panka.
Four bet alert.
And tens is not a hand you're
going to get away from often
in a three-handed game.
Nerp.
I see Dominic getting
away from this
less often than Carmen Diego
gets away from the gumshoes.
So [? Monturi's ?] made
it more than $2 million.
[INAUDIBLE] has folded.
And now it's do or die
time for Dominic Panka.
In this case,
probably do and die.
Oh wow!
He folds!
How did he do that?
He's genuinely either not human
or has got a live [INAUDIBLE]
the size of the T-1000000.
An incredible lady down.
I'm speechless.
Solid stuff.
But we saw the fold
of 2015 a month
before that, when Danny Parlafes
and Ognyan Dimov went heads up
for the EPT 11 Deauville trophy.
Parlafes with queen, 8 here.
He calls.
Nah, [INAUDIBLE] in.
OK.
Dimov has 8, 10 of hearts.
Yeah.
Just go ahead and touch the
chips again with that hand.
He checks his option.
A 9, 7, deuce flops.
Dimov's up and down.
Parlafes ahead for now with
queen high. he bets $200k.
He seems kind of frustrated.
Quick call from Dimov.
A 6 on the turn.
That's the straight for Dimov.
Remember before,
when I was saying
Danny Parlafes is running good?
Well, now he is running
really, really bad.
Action goes.
Check, check.
Oh, no.
A 5 on the river.
Parlafes now with the
dummy end of the straight.
He is running worse than the
family from honey boo-boo.
Wow.
Look at this.
Dimov makes a huge over-bet.
There was $680,000
in the middle.
He's bet $1.2 million.
I mean, Dimov has
literally the only hand
that Parlafes is losing to.
I do not see him folding here.
If he folds here, actually,
I will take my shirt off,
and run around the building.
How good can you run?
Around the building
with my shirt off?
Better than the family
from Honey Boo-boo.
He's folded!
All right.
Well, James, if
you could verify.
The shirt is coming off in
honor of Danny Parlafes, who
just made an incredible fold.
Folding the second [INAUDIBLE]?
Insane.
Eight years earlier across
the other side of the world,
a legend was being created.
[INAUDIBLE] left
his mark in Macau
during season one of the
Asia Pacific Poker Tour.
The tan rises to $77,000.
Pretty good sized raise here.
Over to [INAUDIBLE] now.
Queen, jack of diamonds.
And reaches for chips.
Well, certainly a
hand good enough
to see a flop with, especially
when you've already got--
I raise.
Wow.
He's going to raise it.
Pretty aggressive play here.
Looks like he's
going to raise, yep.
Makes it $120,000 more.
So Tan now, decision time.
He's put $77,000 in already.
$120,000 more.
Ace, queen, a very
difficult hand to play.
Call.
He is going to call.
So a big pot brewing here.
ElkY will have to
act first after flop.
So Tan has position, and
he also has the best hand.
And here is the flop.
It is queen, 8, 5.
Well, and a
dangerous flop it is.
ElkY has to go first.
I would imagine he'd
have to bet here.
No!
Wow.
He's going to check.
He's going to set the trap.
Looks like he wants to go for
the check raise on the flop
here.
Expecting Tan to bet.
Slow playing his top pair.
But Tan has the best hand.
And Tan bets $210,000.
Now we see what
ElkY has planned.
Big trouble for ElkY here.
He checked the flop,
looking for some action.
Tan bet.
What ElkY doesn't
know, of course,
is that Tan has him
beat, has him dominated.
As you can see, just
13% chance to win.
He would have to catch a jack
or running straight cards.
This could be trouble.
Wow!
And ElkY let's it go.
An amazing read!
That is an incredible laydown
in this type of situation.
To re-raise before the flop,
and then check fold on the flop.
That might be one of the
greatest reads I've ever seen.
And six weeks after
that final table,
ElkY officially achieved legend
status by winning the PCA.
Now number two on
our list from EPT 7
Berlin has the makings
of a classic [? Coola. ?]
But it finds itself in
this countdown thanks
to the finely tuned instincts
of Mr. Joep van den Bijgaart.
An Ace, 9 suited for Joep van
den Bijgaart in the big blind.
Any chance he squeezes?
With the suited ace and the
odds he's getting in the pot,
he's probably going to call.
But it wouldn't be a bad
spot with Ben just calling
on the button.
How much of this?
[INAUDIBLE]
Maybe alarm bells are ringing
that Ben didn't three bet.
Didn't know he
had a call button.
Maybe he just wants
to see a flop.
And what a flop!
Ace, 9, deuce with two clubs.
Top set for Wilinofsky.
Top two pair for
van den Bijgaart.
And the flush draw
for Jeffrey Hakim.
He had the pre-flop
betting lead.
It's been checked to him.
Disastrous flop for everybody
but Wilinofsky, a Hollywood
poker writer couldn't
have scripted this cooler
any better.
$93,000.
Considering he has the
board completely crushed,
I like a flat call.
It conceals the
strength of his hand,
and it allows for
opponents to make mistakes.
$193,000.
He going to raise.
He sticks $100,000 on top.
So what does Joep
do with top two?
Pristine opportunity
to re-raise.
He is out of position.
He can't just flat call.
He has to raise the
price of admission.
The show's about
to get expensive.
So he three nets to $530,000.
He's stuck in about
1/3 of his stack.
Call.
Now Hakim can't call it all
off with the flush draw.
How much do you have behind?
When Wilinofsky gets
a count, he may well
think that Joep van den
Bijgaart has committed himself
to this part.
And for that reason,
he may stick him all in
to risk no clubs.
Come on.
He has shoved on
van den Bijgaart.
He looks disgusted.
I'd be happy.
Wow.
Wow, wow, wow.
Having committed a
third of his chips,
he's not meant to pass
a hand this strong.
He has top two on
a board where it's
very difficult for any
hand to have him beat.
I would already be eliminated
from the tournament by now.
I'm in the same boat.
My chips would have
gone across the line,
the cards would
go on their back.
And I would have said, NHGG.
Such a big hand, but
it can mean anything.
How do you put
Wilinofsky on a set here?
Joep is clearly
thinking Ben does not
have a bluff in his range.
[MUTTERING]
He does have aces.
He put aces in his range.
Maybe it's because Wilinofsky
just called pre-flop.
That makes him think
he does have aces.
The first time ever that I
don't really know what to do.
And I don't have a good plan.
I do that to people.
I guess.
I hate myself.
You will show if I fold?
Talking all the time.
And now you're
don't say anything.
Interesting read.
I'm just not going to
answer that question.
No, I know.
If it makes me feel better
though, I don't hate you.
I'm sorry?
I don't hate you.
You said you hated yourself.
I kind of like you.
I don't like myself.
He's picked up on the
fact that Ben has quiet.
He's the chattiest man in poker.
And suddenly, he's gone
as still as a statue.
He's laid it down!
That is an amazing fold!
Van den Bijgaart should
feel extremely proud.
That is a spot where the
majority of poker players
would have gone broke.
And from number
one fantastic fold
we head over to the Bahamas.
In 2011 two top
players were heads up
for one of the biggest
titles in poker.
The title?
The PCA Main Event.
The players?
Galen Hall and Chris Oliver.
Galen Hall on the button.
He's posted the small blind,
and is first to speak.
Looks down at 8, 4 off suit.
You can widen your range heads
up, and raise almost any two
cards profitably
from the button.
He's made it $450,000.
Oliver as ace, deuce
in the big blind.
He'll make the call.
Chris makes the call.
And we will see a flop.
The flop has 3, 5, deuce.
It's an up and down
straight draw for Hall.
Oliver still leads with
a pair of 2's, and a gut
shot straight draw.
This is a good flop for
Hall to continuation bet.
Oliver's checked to him.
Hall makes a C bet of $575,000.
Oliver won't be going anywhere.
Makes the call.
The turn.
It's the two of hearts.
Tripped 2's now for Oliver.
Hall still has
the straight draw.
Oliver checks a second time.
He checks the best
turn card in the deck,
so Hall can fire again.
But Hall checks behind.
Hall makes a straight
on the river,
but Oliver has a full house!
The absolute worst card
in the deck for Hall as he
makes a wheel.
How much money is he going
to lose is the real question.
Oliver sets the trap.
He checks to him.
What a trap indeed.
He's just praying his opponent
has a four as he does.
Hall makes a value bet with
a straight of $2 million.
That is a full pot-sized bet.
Now it's going to
be back on Oliver.
He is contemplating exactly
how much he can check raise.
Galen Hall has 9 and 1/2
million chips behind.
There are 4 million
chips in the pot.
Chris Oliver shoves
on Galen Hall.
He's trying to end it here.
As wild as Oliver is, it's still
highly unlikely he ever shows
up with a stone cold bluff.
Can Galen Hall get
away from this?
Only if he dismisses
the idea of Oliver
turning missed diamonds
or a pair into a bluff,
and interprets this all in
over-bet as a pure value
bet to end it all.
That is a large bet.
Large?
It's twice the pot.
If Galen Hall calls
here with a straight,
the tournament is over.
And Chris Oliver has
won the 2011 PCA.
Oliver's image is telling
Hall to call, call, call.
But something in his gut is
telling him it doesn't add up,
it's not right.
And he makes the lay down!
Galen Hall gets away
from the strait!
That is an amazing fold!
Since he realized he was
chopping the pot at best,
he cut his losses and
made a spectacular fold.
Spoiler alert.
Galen Hall went on to win.
Well, those are our top
five fantastic folds.
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