“QQQ” tanked two minutes and mucked four-of-a-kind fours against a full house, walking away with a fraction of what should have been his
A cash game player known as “QQQ” made what may go down as the worst fold ever captured on a poker live stream, releasing quad fours on the river against an opponent holding nothing better than a full house. The hand aired Tuesday on TCH Live’s YouTube channel, roughly four hours into a session at Texas Card House Dallas.
The opponent, Spooky, closed the night up $14,600. He should have been felted an hour before it ended.
you EVER folding QUADS? 😖
— World Poker Tour (@WPT) March 5, 2026
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The Setup: A Flopped Cooler Nobody Acted On
Ryan opened to $150 from the hijack with A♥3♠. Spooky called on the button with 6♠6♦, Zak came in from the small blind with 9♣8♣, and QQQ looked down at 4♠4♦ in the straddle and called. Four players took a flop.
The board fell 4♠6♥4♥. QQQ had flopped quads. Spooky had flopped sixes full of fours. Nobody bet. The A♣ hit the turn, and again the action checked through. It wasn’t until the 3♥ spiked on the river that anyone put money in, and that card brought with it the possibility of a straight flush.
QQQ Fires, Gets Raised, Raises Again, Then Folds
QQQ led for $400. Ryan called with aces and threes. Spooky raised to $1,300 with his full house. Zak folded. QQQ 3-bet to $2,400. Ryan got out of the way, and Spooky moved all in for $7,565.
QQQ had him covered and was looking at quad fours. He tanked for two minutes anyway. The TCH Live commentators were confused. When QQQ finally tabled his hand and folded, the table erupted.
“Oh my f*****g god!” a player shouted.
Why the Fold Didn’t Hold Up
Quads lose only to a straight flush. The 3♥ river did put a straight flush in the range of possibilities, but Spooky had checked back both the flop and the turn as the in-position player. That line is almost impossible to take with a flush draw, let alone a straight flush draw, in a multiway pot.
QQQ still won $3,600 on the session. Spooky booked $14,600, a number that tells you everything about what the fold cost. TCH Dallas does offer a $25,000 bad beat jackpot, but the qualifier requires a straight flush to lose the hand, a scenario that was never remotely in play here.
The hand immediately drew comparisons to the Gus Hansen versus Daniel Negreanu cooler from High Stakes Poker, though that one played out the way the cards demanded.
