I didn’t have a good night last night, but I saw this hand happen at one of my tables. I guess my night could have been worse, I could have been on the losing end of this hand:
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Poker Stars, $0.02/$0.05 NL Hold’em Cash Game, 6 Players
Hand History Converter by Stoxpoker
MP: $5.01 (100.2 bb)
CO: $2.85 (57 bb)
Hero (BTN): $10.62 (212.4 bb)
SB: $10.23 (204.6 bb)
BB: $4.90 (98 bb)
UTG: $7.58 (151.6 bb)
Pre-Flop: Hero is BTN with 5h 4s
UTG raises to $0.10, 3 folds, SB raises to $0.45, BB folds, UTG calls $0.35
Flop: ($0.95) Ac Qh Kh (2 players)
SB bets $0.75, UTG raises to $1.50, SB raises to $8, UTG calls $5.63 and is all-in
Turn: ($15.21) Ah (2 players, 1 is all-in)
River: ($15.21) 4h (2 players, 1 is all-in)
Results: $15.21 pot ($0.75 rake)
SB showed Ks Ad (a full house, Aces full of Kings) and lost (-$7.58 net)
UTG showed Th Jh (a royal flush) and won $14.46 ($6.88 net)
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I doubt that will compare to the fireworks I expect to see at the Twitter Poker Tour event tonight.
That is just mean.
You can’t fault the guy with the boat, the odds of hitting that royal are very slim, even with the community cards showing. But that still hurts.
I agree, I don’t really see the hand playing out much different, except if the villain folds to the preflop raise. Look at the hand closer though, the A-K hit his A-K on the flop, but the villain flopped the nut straight. Crazy when you think about it, because the only cards that can help the A-K is another A or K, minus the A of hearts that is, leaving him with 3 outs (ok, maybe 9 outs if you count that the board could go runner-runner J-10 for a straight on the board, but not likely). I like to call these hands the PokerStars perfect storms. They usually happen against me, thankfully I was just an innocent spectator on this one.