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    highest hand ever dealt

    i was once dealt a royal when i was playing lowball...lol

    obv after flop...but i have never been dealt a royal in nlhe .....don't think i was ever dealt a str8flush either...........was dealt a boat...and turned str8flush in nlhe....don't think i've ever made a royal, period. and this is w/ many online hands..(i might have once..but i can't remember,..and you would think you would if it happened)

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    I flopped a Royal years ago at my local Casino. Ship the free breakfast buffet for 2!!!!

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    I've gotten 3 royal flushes online. Never seen one live.

    I'd be more interested to hear about the lowest hand people have gotten in hold 'em. I came across some mathematical oddities while working on a project recently and learned that some very low hands are harder to get than royal flushes. Like, WAY harder.

    If you were to play every hand, and always see a river, your chances of getting a royal flush are roughly 1 in 31,000.

    Your chances of getting a royal flush of a particular suit are about 1 in 123,000

    Your chances of getting 9s8s7s5s4h are 1 in 14,864,951.

    This is mostly because royal flushes can't be improved, but you have to dodge tons of outs for low hands to hold.

    I also discovered that some hands are impossible in hold 'em, like 77642. Weird eh?

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    Quote Originally Posted by mulva View Post
    i was once dealt a royal when i was playing lowball...lol

    obv after flop...but i have never been dealt a royal in nlhe .....don't think i was ever dealt a str8flush either...........was dealt a boat...and turned str8flush in nlhe....don't think i've ever made a royal, period. and this is w/ many online hands..(i might have once..but i can't remember,..and you would think you would if it happened)
    You've never even been dealt quads? That's happened to me a ton of times.

    I was dealt a Royal in 2003 on Interpoker's 150-300 pound game. I got some decent action because the opponent had AA, and the board was AQThhh when I had KJhh. Too bad the board didn't pair.

    I have various Royals over the years, but never been dealt one except for that one time.

    You get dealt a Royal once every 640,000 hands on average. That, of course, is provided you don't fold hands like QTs/KJs/KQs/ATs/AJs preflop, because it's possible to fold those preflop and then flop a Royal.

    The only straight flush I've ever flopped live was at the WSOP in the 2006 limit holdem shootout event. Strangely enough, it was the first poker hand my mom ever watched me play live, and I flopped a straight flush. I had J8dd and flopped QT9dd. I was up against a fish who decided to keep raising me with AK no diamond, and he even called the river with ace high.

    My mom couldn't believe when I turned over a flopped straight flush on the first hand she ever watched. She thought I was joking at first when I said "straight flush" before turning it over.

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    I've made one Royal Flush playing live poker in NL and have made a straight flush in NL a few times.

    I'm not even going to get into online poker because anyone who has logged a huge sample of hands likely has made royal flushes a few if not several times.

    Four card games don't count either since it's not that difficult to make a Royal Flush in Omaha.

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    Oops, didn't realize we were talking about just on the flop. Can't say I've ever flopped a royal.

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    All Holdem: 3 online royals, none flopped, 1 royal live at a home game (flopped), everyone folded to my minbet.

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    Here is another interesting question:

    What is the worst situation you can have where you are ahead on the flop but an underdog to win against one opponent? That is, what's the worst winning probability you can possibly have when you're ahead on the flop.

    The answer is having pocket 22 against KQ suited on a board of JTx, where the JT on the board is the same suit as the KQ (and the x is an offsuit card 3-8).

    The odds of the 22 winning here is just 27.68%, despite being ahead at the moment.

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    Also, an open-ended straight flush draw on the flop has a better than 50% chance to win against ANY opponent's hand, with the exception of:

    1) A flopped set
    2) A flopped boat
    3) A higher flush draw

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    Royals only in LHE/PLO

    None of it live

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    Ive had 17 Royal flushes with 7 of them being within the first quarter of 2013 & three of them being flopped. Not lucky just have played millions of hands...Granted if I was not a HU specialist for most of my career and played more than 1 to 4 tables it would be a lot more...I can only imagine how many Royals Nanonoko has gotten...Has to be in the hundreds. (PTR royal flush badges are far off as there are millions of missing hands and many stipulations such as it having to go to showdown & more.)

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    ^^^ - I've ran into the open ended straight flush draw vs. flopped set a few times playing live. If this is in NL the money really should always be going in (unless stacks are extremely deep) and one person is just going to lose a big pot every time unless both people are playing horribly. Draws that could be up against potential boat or even flopped trips weak kicker type of hands are a different story.

    Of course in limit holdem the betting can slow down in later streets with the flopped set vs open ended straight flush draw especially if the draw comes in the person with the set realizes they probably just got beat so capping the betting isn't great or the draw may take a safer approach to get to showdown.

    The thing is many times nobody else has anything when one person flops huge. I remember playing live one time this guy flopped quads and he was so upset he got nothing for them that he spewed off a 200-300bb stack in the next half hour while complaining about his quads the entire time.

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    A guy once flopped a royal against me playing 15/30 limit at Bellagio. He checked the flop and I checked my pair of 5s behind him. He checked the turn and I bet as a bluff. He flat called and bet out on the river. I mucked. Of course he showed his hand. I don't think there is a player in the world who could just quietly throw his cards in, take the pot, and move to the next hand. No one in the world has an ego that small!

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    I flopped a royal on UB back in the day and they sent me a shirt like Hellmuth used to wear.

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    flopped a straight flush one time in 3/6 limit and checked called the whole way because I was so drunk that I thought I only had a 9 high flush

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    Was dealt in a bad beat in FL last yr, only got a table share but was an interesting hand.

    88 vs. 10Jcc

    flop 7c8c8d turn Xc, river 9c...

    Guy flopped quad 8s and smooth played it OOP c/c, the guy thought he was trapping and the flush card turned. That card was perfect giving the 10Jcc guy a flush and enough to call the sizable turn bet guy OOP w/ 88 lead out with. The 9c river prob didn't even register to him because he fired again, got raised and they get it all in. Flip them up and the flopped quad 88s lost to the river 1 out 9c straight flush.

    Two good players, so it all played out exactly as it should of. No problem with the review and we all got a nice piece of the 57k. As far as flopped hands go, flopping straight flushs with sooted connected ~67/89's

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dan Druff View Post
    Also, an open-ended straight flush draw on the flop has a better than 50% chance to win against ANY opponent's hand, with the exception of:

    1) A flopped set
    2) A flopped boat
    3) A higher flush draw
    Uhm, no!

    JJ vs 8h7h

    flop: QxTh9h

    JJ is in front even without the J of hearts.

    Not that you dont have the equity in some/many cases to get it in but you are not ahead!


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    Quote Originally Posted by pavoe View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Dan Druff View Post
    Also, an open-ended straight flush draw on the flop has a better than 50% chance to win against ANY opponent's hand, with the exception of:

    1) A flopped set
    2) A flopped boat
    3) A higher flush draw
    Uhm, no!

    JJ vs 8h7h

    flop: QxTh9h

    JJ is in front even without the J of hearts.

    Not that you dont have the equity in some/many cases to get it in but you are not ahead!


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    Quote Originally Posted by garrett View Post

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    Quote Originally Posted by KevinWright View Post
    Not that I believe your story but who the fuck ever gave you permission to use charitable funds for the good of your cock.

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    Quote Originally Posted by pavoe View Post
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