On his YouTube channel, Gary Blackwood takes viewers through a hand that most players only have nightmares about: folding pocket kings preflop in the WSOP Main Event.
He explains his reasoning with a calmness that only someone who has accepted their fate could muster. According to the video, it was a spot where “the only hands that make sense are aces,” and he decided his kings weren’t good enough.
“Sometimes, the right play just feels wrong. But that’s poker.”
The comments section is already full of armchair analysts debating whether they’d have the discipline to make the same fold. For most, the answer is probably not.