POTD #144 How to Not Play Quads

The biggest punt of my GGMillion$

In POTD #57, I wrote about a hand in the SCOOP Main Event where Fabiano Kowalski misplayed quads by overbetting them on the river, which prevented his opponent from raising in a spot where he has 6x pot to play on the river. The SCOOP has come and gone and the WCOOP just wrapped up; I wrote a blog titled “How to Play Quads” and ran several sims going over the hand in question. So one would think that I would have learned to play quads by now, but alas, that is not how learning or poker works. Playing quads in a heads-up pot vs. an opponent who can have straights, flushes, and full houses is very different from playing quads with 220% pot to play on a board where your opponent’s range is capped around top pair.

I am still in the midst of recording my Run It Once¹ series where I review my online poker session from September 23rd, 2025, and I have already written about the largest pot I played in that session, but I am still searching for the worst hand I played during that session. As of October 9th, 2025, I believe that today’s hand is the worst hand I played in that session. I had gotten four of five decisions wrong and several of them cost a large amount of EV, but before I officially anoint this hand the Punt of September 23rd, I want to do a little more due diligence. I am sure this hand is a bigger punt than POTD #138, and I believe today’s hand will be one of the top two punts of this session. So once I finish recording this series for Run It Once, I will publish another POTD entry from that session to see if today’s hand: How to Not Play Quads will be the winner or have to settle for being the runner up. Onto the hand.

$25,000 GGMIllion$ SHR Championship

(800/1600/200) 7 Handed. Registration is Open 110k Starting Stack

It folds to me in the HJ (79,680) I make it 3,520 with 2♠️2♥️, it folds to Samuel Mullur (59,520) who calls on the button, it folds to B Binder (93,760) in the BB who calls.

Flop (12,800) K♠️9♠️2♣️: Binder checks, I check, Mullur bets 5,120, Binder folds, I call.

Turn (23,040) A♦️: I check, Mullur checks.

River (23,040) 2♦️: I bet 23,040 of Mullur’s 50,880, he uses 2 time banks before folding.