My first straight flush

esool · September 2004

I have never witnessed a royal *edit* I mean straight flush before. It's nice that I was the one holding it.

Pokerstars 2 table sit n go.(Training for tonights 2 table in Toronto

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PokerStars Game #697498651: Tournament #2696250, Hold'em No Limit - Level VIII
(200/400) - 2004/09/16 - 23:45:59 (ET)
Table '2696250 2' Seat #5 is the button
Seat 5: esool (4080 in chips)
Seat 7: BJsAviators (7855 in chips)
Seat 9: Capt Cane (15065 in chips)
esool: posts the ante 25
BJsAviators: posts the ante 25
Capt Cane: posts the ante 25
BJsAviators: posts small blind 200
Capt Cane: posts big blind 400
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to esool [6s 9s]
esool: calls 400
BJsAviators: raises 800 to 1200
Capt Cane: folds
esool: calls 800
*** FLOP *** [5d 8s 7s]
BJsAviators: bets 6630 and is all-in
esool: calls 2855 and is all-in
*** TURN *** [5d 8s 7s] [Ts]
*** RIVER *** [5d 8s 7s Ts] [4s]
BJsAviators said, "wow"
*** SHOW DOWN ***
BJsAviators: shows [7d 7h] (three of a kind, Sevens)
esool: shows [6s 9s] (a straight flush, Six to Ten)
esool collected 8585 from pot

djw · September 2004

Cool, congrats!

esool · September 2004

djw wrote:

Royal flush? you mean straight flush? Still cool, congrats!

Uh, yes. Thanks. :redface:
I have edited the original post..

actyper · September 2004

My A high flush got beat by a straight flush last night. :banghead: I thought I had the nuts. Funny thing is that a 3rd guy also had a flush, K high. This is also with only 3 flush cards in the community as well.

sweetjimmi · September 2004

I had a similar thing happen with me Actyper except I was on the winning end. The eventually lead to the biggest pot I had ever won. To make a long story short I won with a Royal Flush (K10 spades) beating to baby flushed and a full house (the river paired the board). The third spade came on the turn putting the two flush all-in (both having small to medium stacks. When the river paired the board I was estatic since I was already holding the nuts.

It was a dream hand where I think I only had to raise the last player on the river. Called the whole way there.

I have had a couple of straight flushes since with some nice payoffs as well. I find these big hands pay off very well in general which the opposite of what I would have thought before hitting them. But I guess I have paid off some though.

I guess that shows the value of these hands since they are often well hidden to the players with flushes and full houses.

ScottyZ · September 2004

I once was lucky enough to have the top end of a straight flush with 4 to a straight flush on board. Both the Ace-high flush and the lower straight flush were out there, so it ended up being almost a $300 pot at $5-$10.

And by "lucky enough", I mean lucky enough to hit a 1-outer. I held Qs Jd and the flop came down Ts 9s 8s. Even on what looked like a pretty good flop for me, it turns out I was drawing dead to the Js. There was already a made flush out there (7s 2s from the BB), and another player held the As.

The miraculous Js fell on the turn, and the betting fireworks began to go off.

ScottyZ