Sunday, April 22, 2012

My favorite flush street

As you know, my favorite type of hand is a flush. What you don't know yet, since I didn't think about it until just now, is that my favorite street to hit a flush on is fourth street (aka the turn). Last night, I hit a king high flush on fourth street, and an opponent picked just that moment to go all in. I called, and won a pot worth $90,000. My opponent had two pair, kings and tens.

Why is the turn my favorite street to hit a flush on? It's pretty simple, really. If you hit a flush on the flop, by definition all three cards in the flop have the same suit; that's a very scary board for your opponents. They know that if someone didn't already make a flush, the odds are good that someone will still end up making one on the turn or the river. Therefore, you're not likely to be able to make very much money in that situation; you'll have to bet small and hope at least one opponent comes along for the ride. If you hit a flush on the river, in most cases you'll end up raking in a big pot, but often your opponents won't allow you to get there; they'll have made a bet that is too expensive to call given your odds of making your flush. If you hit a flush on the turn, though, you're in the ideal situation; you're less likely to have been forced off your hand by a big bet at this stage, your opponents are likely to be more committed to the pot, and they're more likely to have made some kind of a hand at this point, making it harder for them to fold. The biggest danger for you is that you'll lose to an uberflush, but that's unlikely. In last night's flush hand, I had two babies for hole cards (4h and 6h), but wasn't really that worried about the uberflush.

During current Hold'em session you were dealt 9 hands and saw flop:
 - 0 out of 1 times while in big blind (0%)
 - 0 out of 1 times while in small blind (0%)
 - 3 out of 7 times in other positions (42%)
 - a total of 3 out of 9 (33%)
 Pots won at showdown - 1 of 2 (50%)
 Pots won without showdown - 1

delta: $49,800
balance: $4,346,747

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