Poker Night Special Report
On an inconsistant basis my friends an I will get 6 - 8 people together for a friendly game of poker. We play a cash game with an initial buy in of 5 dollars. I ended the night with $11.50. And that's not even the part I want to write about.
Allow me to set the scene:
Last hand of the night. Everyone's got what they want to take home with them set aside and their loose change to play with. I get dealt a 8 and 9 of spades. Not bad I think, definately playable so I call the initial bet.
The flop comes. 10 of spades, J of spades and Q of hearts. So I'm thinking, this is great, I have my straight and a flush draw. People bet, I re-raise, some calls all around and the game goes on.
Next card, 7 of spades. At first, my only thought was, hey, I made my flush, that's even better than my straight! Then I looked at it again and realized what I had... 7, 8, 9, 10, J straight flush! One guy puts in a bet of a dollar to everyone's groans because that required everyone to dip into their "reserves". Being that it is a friendly game, I didn't really feel the need to milk every last dollar out of my friend, and I wanted it to end dramatically so I pushed in my entire $7.50 into the pot to put my friend in all in. (everyone else folded and got out of the way.)
He thought about it for a long, long while, but finally I just told him, you really want to fold, trust me. :)
So he did, and I didn't take his 4 dollars he had left, but that doesn't really matter. I got a STRAIGHT FLUSH!!!
Allow me to set the scene:
Last hand of the night. Everyone's got what they want to take home with them set aside and their loose change to play with. I get dealt a 8 and 9 of spades. Not bad I think, definately playable so I call the initial bet.
The flop comes. 10 of spades, J of spades and Q of hearts. So I'm thinking, this is great, I have my straight and a flush draw. People bet, I re-raise, some calls all around and the game goes on.
Next card, 7 of spades. At first, my only thought was, hey, I made my flush, that's even better than my straight! Then I looked at it again and realized what I had... 7, 8, 9, 10, J straight flush! One guy puts in a bet of a dollar to everyone's groans because that required everyone to dip into their "reserves". Being that it is a friendly game, I didn't really feel the need to milk every last dollar out of my friend, and I wanted it to end dramatically so I pushed in my entire $7.50 into the pot to put my friend in all in. (everyone else folded and got out of the way.)
He thought about it for a long, long while, but finally I just told him, you really want to fold, trust me. :)
So he did, and I didn't take his 4 dollars he had left, but that doesn't really matter. I got a STRAIGHT FLUSH!!!
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