Quick answer: On Crush Live Poker, a caller tells Bart Hanson about a $1/$2 home game hand where he rivered sixes full on an 8-8-5-7-6 board. The limper bet $30, the cutoff jammed for about $140, and the caller tank-called. Then the limper moved all in over the top. The caller folded his full house. The limper showed pocket eights for quads, and Bart's verdict was simple: "I actually like your fold here."
Source: Crush Live Poker, "Full House vs 2 ALL-INS in a Home Game Gone MAD," clipped as a YouTube Short.
The hand
The video's description calls him a first-time caller from Toronto, playing a low-stakes 1/2 home game. He has pocket sixes on the button in a five-way pot, and the board runs out 8-8-5-7-6. The six on the river gives him sixes full of eights, a hand most players never think about folding at small stakes.
The action is what makes it hard. The small blind checks, the limper bets $30, and the cutoff, the short stack in the hand, moves all in for about $140. The caller thinks for a long time and calls, keeping about $170 behind. He says he wanted to keep the limper in the pot in case the limper was betting a nine for a straight.
Then the small blind folds and the limper "pretty quickly jams."
Why Bart says fold
Bart admits the chat was against him. One viewer asked how you can fold a boat in a small-stakes game. But he says, "I actually think this probably does become a fold now."
His reasoning comes down to two things. First, the price is not as good as it looks: by his count there's about $585 in the middle and $170 for the caller to put in. Second, "you have to beat two people." On that board, the only full house sixes full beats is pocket fives. It loses to pocket sevens, to eight-seven, to eight-six and to quad eights. When one player jams and another re-jams over a call, Bart says, it's hard to find worse hands that would play that way.
He also points out the earlier spot was different. He doesn't think the caller could fold to the first jam alone, "because I've just seen too many crazy stuff happen." It was the second all-in that changed things.
The reveal
The caller folded. He admits part of the appeal was that he'd get to see the hand play out. The limper showed pocket eights for quads, and the cutoff had pocket fives, the one full house the caller was beating. So he would have won the cutoff's small side pot and lost the much bigger main pot to the quads.
Bart says he used to see this all the time in the low-stakes games on Live at the Bike. In his experience, a player slow-plays quads all the way down and then gets only a small river bet called. Here the limper got lucky that the cutoff had a hand worth jamming.
Real-name note
Bart Hanson goes by his real name. According to the CrushLivePoker About page, he started on Live at the Bike! in 2005, hosted "Cash Plays" on Poker Road and "Deuce Plays" on Deuces Cracked, and moved to CrushLivePoker, which he now owns, in 2012. The caller isn't named in the clip, so we don't name him.
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FAQ
What hand did the caller fold? Pocket sixes for sixes full of eights on an 8-8-5-7-6 board, in a $1/$2 home game.
What did the other players have? The limper had pocket eights for quads. The cutoff had pocket fives, a smaller full house.
Did Bart Hanson agree with the fold? Yes. He said, "I actually like your fold here," because the caller had to beat two players who both put all their chips in.