Uberflushed

One of the worst feelings you can experience at a poker table is having your flush beaten by a better flush, in the case where the board has three cards to a flush and both your hole cards are needed to complete it. The odds that someone else has another such flush, let alone one which beats yours, are small indeed. I call the better flush an uberflush, and say that the loser has been uberflushed :-)

This is an excerpt from my April 3, 2017 post. I was uberflushed on the final hand of the first tournament I entered today. I'd been dealt a jack of hearts and a smaller heart, and the ace of hearts, the queen of hearts, and a smaller heart showed up on the board. I knew I could only be beaten by someone who had been dealt the king of hearts and another heart. I called a river bet which put me all in, and got the bad news at showdown. However, I didn't feel downhearted. There were two excellent reasons for this:

1. it was the correct play to call, and I'd make the same call in that situation 100% of the time

2. I'd already made the money :-)

style flavor buy_in  entry players entries paid place winnings

MTT   NLHE    44000   6000       9     334   81    58   102000
MTT   NLHE    44000   6000       9     255   72    39   106000

delta: $108,000
2024 balance: $3,262,000
2024 blue distance: $0
balance: $16,071,303
MTT NLHE ITM pct: 41.56 (1219 of 2933)

Uberflushed

An uberflush is what I call it when two players were both dealt two cards of the same suit, and three cards of that suit show up in the community cards. That means both players have hit their flush, neither will fold, and one will be in for a world of hurt. When you're on the wrong end of an uberflush, that's what I call being uberflushed. Last night, I was uberflushed early on, and hit the rail a short time later. I re-entered, and lasted much longer on my second bullet, but still missed the money by a country mile.

style flavor  buy_in    entry players entries paid place  winnings

MTT   NLHE   4400000   600000       8     113   17    36        0

delta: $-10,000,000
MTT NLHE balance: $285,201,468
2022 balance: $206,612,000
blue distance: $150,375,000
balance: $301,455,953