Funniest Poker Fails: The Goldfish Award Finalists

#RKHgoldfish #GoldfishFail 

Over the past weeks we've been looking for and sharing funny poker bluffs, folds, misreads, and calls. By giving 'likes' to the nominated hands, RankingHero members picked four finalists for the virtual Goldfish Award. It is now time to vote for the winner!

Voting is open to the whole poker community and you are all more than welcome to share the form on your personal blogs or websites and on social media!

Though this mission was not a competition, RankingHero likes to reward its active members and this time is no exception! We already have three winners of branded decks of cards - @Simonetta @Jordan Hooper and @Emty head the leaderboard wih most nominations and likes:

Two more decks of cards will be given out to two randomly drawn members out of everyone who participated in the Goldfish mission by nominating, liking, commenting, and sharing - to be announced next week! Finally, one of the 4 mission entrants who nominated the finalists will win a fantastic RankingHero T-shirt! 

@Annie RKH (who, believe it or not, does not have a RKH T-shirt and would very much like one :) with the best-liked #GoldfishBluff 

@Simonetta - best-liked #GoldfishFold 

@Mark Duguid - best-liked #GoldfishMisread  

@Jordan Hooper - best-liked #GoldfishCall 

Happy voting everyone and please share the form and the good laughs with your poker friends :)

http://goo.gl/forms/jrOypIK6NH

WHICH IS THE FUNNIEST POKER FAIL?goo.gl

Are these the worst folds you have seen? Vote until Monday!

#GoldfishFold

Kings are not enough for Matusow 

Jordan Hooper - Blog Post - Ranking HeroHi Guys,This is My Nomination for the worst Fold iv'e ever seen.www.rankinghero.com

Matusow needs to be 100% sure 

Emty - Blog Post - Ranking Hero#RKHgoldfish #GoldfishFold sometimes it hapens when you thinking about worst www.rankinghero.com

Esfandiari has to explain about overpairs to Matusow 

Go Broke or Go GoldfishFold 

Have a tilt and a smile! - Ranking HeroThis one really has it all - high stakes (WSOP ME)&good hands (set vs top two pair), steaming&smiling it off (and even a friendly superstar at the table)!www.rankinghero.com

The guy who only plays pocket quads

What's a top best or worst list without Phil Hellmuth in it?.. 

Socius - Blog Post - Ranking HeroWhat's a top best or worst list without Phil Hellmuth in it?..www.rankinghero.com

Fooled into a Fold by Beauty and the Bluff

Behind every great bluff there is a bad fold?.. - Ranking HeroMiss Finland's PokerStars Shark Cage bluff is one of the most talked-about and fun hands of the year and wouldn't have been possible without @Ronnie Bardah.www.rankinghero.com

Rare fail by one of the Golden Boys of German Poker 

Advoghado - Blog Post - Ranking Hero#RKHgoldfish #GoldfishFoldwww.rankinghero.com

The willpower to fold AAs 

Farcas Paul - Blog Post - Ranking Hero#RKHgoldfish and #GoldfishFoldwww.rankinghero.com

Frankenberger resists temptation of pocket queens 

Skilful - Blog Post - Ranking HeroThis has to be the worst fold i've ever seen...pot odds! also highlights the importance of having a 'plan' for the hand!!!!!!!! www.rankinghero.com

Goldfish Award: Folds - YouTubehttp://www.rankinghero.com/en/hashtags/GoldfishFold.htmlwww.youtube.com

What's a top best or worst list without Phil Hellmuth in it?..

#GoldfishFold #RKHgoldfish 

Behind every great bluff there is a bad fold?..

Miss Finland's PokerStars Shark Cage bluff is one of the most talked-about and fun hands of the year and wouldn't have been possible without @Ronnie Bardah.

Was it the #RKHgoldfish  #GoldfishFold of 2015? It's certainly one of the funniest to watch :)

#RKHgoldfish #GoldfishFold

Have a tilt and a smile!

This one really has it all - high stakes (WSOP ME)&good hands (set vs top two pair), steaming&smiling it off (and even a friendly superstar at the table)!

Hope you'll like my top #RKHgoldfish #GoldfishFold nomination:

Check out comments by Jesse Howells below the video!!!l

And if you want to know what went on before the video starts, here's the update from WSOP:

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How would YOU have played this hand from the WSOP final table?

Here on RankingHero, we have utmost admiraton and respect for @Pierre Neuville - 'The Serial PokerStars Qualifier' and most senior member of the November Nine! Though he dropped out in 7th place (one of the six finalists eliminated by the eventual champion @Joseph McKeehen) he is sure to inspire many (and certainly not just seniors!) with his performance, drive, and love for the game!

Pierre was eliminated holding AcJc in an all-in against Joe McKeehen's Jh6h. Ironically, earlier on he held the exact same AJs in a confrontaton with @Joshua Beckley and ended up folding the best hand.

Was it a #GoldfishFold?  Would YOU have played it differently? Where do you think Neuville went wrong?

It would be great to get some insights from our in-house expert pros @Pedro Canali @Nicolas Levi or @Renaud Desferet ? And maybe a comment from @Mark Duguid - Pierre was your favorite to win, Mark, what do you do you think of his performance and his play in this particular hand?

#RKHgoldfish 

Pierre Neuville Joins 2015 November Nine 4th in Chips but 1st by Seniority, Experience and Winnings - Ranking HeroHe’s got almost 3 decades in the games industry, a passion for competitive tennis and golf, and a successful poker career: games of all kinds are a recurrent theme throughout Pierre Neuville’s life, which reads like a novel and is likely  to end up on the big screen one day. For now he  will have to content himself with the biggest stage in poker - the 2015 November Nine!www.rankinghero.com

Some unfunny Gus Hansen stories here by David Williams and Annie Duke's brother; a moderately funny fold and reaction by Mike Matusow, and a positively funny Esfandiari lesson in poker basics to Mike at 3:02 :)

#RKHgoldfish #GoldfishFold 

"He only plays pocket quads?!!" lol

#RKHgoldfish #GoldfishFold 

This has to be the worst fold i've ever seen...

pot odds! also highlights the importance of having a 'plan' for the hand!!!!!!!!

#RKHgoldfish and #GoldfishFold