Kym Lim folds Quad Queens in high stakes cash game!

A poker hand went viral on Twitter last week. The online poker community has been fervently discussing Kym Lim folding quad Queens in a $20/$40/$80 No limit Hold’em cash game.

Who Is Kym Lim?

Kym Lim is a professional live cash game player from Vancouver, Canada. She appeared on a stream of Live at the Bike in September 2017. She’s also played live cash NLHE in a Halloween episode of Poker Night of America.

She’s not a big tournament grinder, however. Her Hendon profile only shows a single cash for $2,381 from a C$700 event in 2013.

However, she has a sizeable audience on social media. As of date, she has 5,319 followers on Twitter and 4,939 followers on Instagram.

The Breakdown of Kym Lim Folding Quads

In that hand history, we can see Kym Lim taking the passive line multiple times on earlier streets.

She doesn’t 3-bet her pocket Queens pre-flop. She checks her quads on the flop. The hero also checks on the turn, even after no bets were made on the flop.

Lim had the literal nuts on the flop and the turn. That changed on the river, however, when the Td fell.

At that point, Kym Lim loses to KdJd, which makes a Royal Flush; as well as Jd9d, which makes a straight flush – two combinations of hands in total. She eventually lays down her four of a kind after a 5-bet shove from the reg for $42,000 (525 BB’s) more.

Kym Lim explained her thought process in a follow-up tweet shortly after:

The Reaction

Folding quads evidently caught the attention of many famous poker pros, who responded online.

Jonathan Little made an entire video dedicated to this hand on his YouTube channel.

In it, he had this to say:

“My initial thoughts were, well, if you’re folding the second or third nuts, maybe you messed up somewhere along the line”.

Little criticized Kym Lim for checking the turn. However, he later went on to justify her fold on the river, saying:

“At this point, given the way this hand’s played out, I actually think this is probably gonna be a fold against most players. I’m not gonna say ALL players, but most players. (…)

If the reg is someone who is just kind of a, as my friends refer to him, a placeholder, a player who’s just kind of there playing straight up, not doing anything absurd. At that point, I think it’s actually an easy fold.”

Other famous poker players have replied as well, including Doug Polk.

Marle Cordeiro also chimed in. She expressed her disapproval of random, inexperienced players aggressively criticizing Kym Lim on the internet. She also went on to claim that she believes the hand was “however you look at it, a cooler”, and that the fold was justified since Lim had a history of playing with the villain.

Other Famous Big Folds in Poker

Unfortunately, Kym Lim folding her quad Queens is not on camera.

However, in January 2019, Thi Xoa Nguyen was recorded mucking her full house on the river in the $25K NLHE Players Championship at last year’s PCA.

She folded Queens full of Aces face up. In turn, her opponent showed his hand – Aces full of Queens…

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