Updated on 22 Feb 26 by
Barry Carter
Poker Expert

A huge fold at the WSOPE, but was it right?

In case you missed it, last week the WSOPE feature table had one of the most talked about hands of the year.





One of the more memorable hands of 2017 took place last week at the World Series of Poker Europe in a four way pot between Rainer Kemper, Kristen Bicknell, Niall Farrell and Maria Ho. All four well known players caught a piece of the flop, but it was eventual finalists Farrell and Ho who got everyone talking. 

Both players eventually cashed for six-figure sums at the final table (Ho came 6th for €174,365 and Farrell 5th for €329,639, eliminated in the same hand), but if the call had been made here, one of them probably wouldn't have. 

Let us know how you would have played the set of tens in the comments:


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Barry Carter is the editor of PokerStrategy.com and the co-author of The Mental Game of Poker 1 & 2, Poker Satellite Strategy, PKO Poker Strategy, Endgame Poker Strategy, GTO Poker Simplified, Mystery Bounty Poker Strategy and Beyond GTO. In 2025, he won the Global Poker Awards for Best Book and Twitter Personality of the Year.