Last night, while playing pub poker at Angry Ale's, I hit my third ever straight flush. This was the second time I've hit one in a live game. This one was done the hard way with a J7 of diamonds in the big blind. I would usually not play this hand, but there was no raise and I saw the flop for free.
It was early and I've got about 1000 from a starting 1200. Blinds are 20-40 or so. The flop came out 9d 8d Blank giving me a flush draw, and inside straight draw, and the straight flush draw.
I check on the flop. I'll mention that the caller to my left was a beginning player who had been calling everything down all night with nothing at times, raising with any pair and generally playing poorly, but he was just coming off a big suck out, so he had some chips to play. He bets 50, the other player calls, as do I.
The turn comes with another 8 and I check again. Lefty bets 50. Call. Call. The river, of course, comes with the 10 of diamonds completing the SF. I know it is a tell and a half, but I go back to my cards to double check the SF. I check. Lefty bets 200 and gets a call. I go all in for 650 more and lefty calls. The other player folds.
Lefty turns over 10 10 for a boat. I exclaim "you don't see many of these" and turn my hand over. The table reads my cards and pushs the stack to lefty. I can't believe that I have misread my hand, so I look again. "WAIT", I say. "That's a straight flush!". Then I hear various "Oh my God"s and "Holy Shit!"s around the table.
I go on to finish 6th on the night.
4 comments:
In the first paragraph you say you flopped a straight draw, a flush draw, and a straight flush draw... but if you were holding J7d, and the flop was 89T with 2 diamonds, then you flopped a straight, a diamond flush draw, and a straight flush draw.
Speaking as someone who saw your Royal Club Flush before: YOU LUCKY BASTARD!
-AndresNa
My bad. The flop did not include a 10. That must have been a blank. Lefty had 10 10 in his hand giving him quads under my first telling. The flop was 8d 9d blank. Sorry for the confusion. Now you see why I double checked my hand. :)
I'm fixing the original post to avoid further castigation.
And let us not forget that you not only SAW the Royal Club Flush before, you LOST to the Royal Club Flush before.
Nope. I was out of that hand. I believe it was a certain Mr. Math-challenged security friend of ours who did. It was 3 way at that point and I was just an observer.
I would remember having lost to a royal...
-AndresNa
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