Posted on 12/16/2013 6:30:47 PM PST by navysealdad
Seems like James Garner should have been at that game.
You should have just asked him for it. I believe that's permitted under the rules as long as no one is watching.
If only one deck of cards, how can one player have a royal flush and another player have 4 aces?
So, Mabuchi is sitting with trip Aces, which is a pretty strong hand.
Phillips has a Flush draw, which is hard enough, but a royal flush draw ?
Mabuchi hits the quads ?
WOW
Mabuchi may have been able to push him off the hand earlier, but we don’t see their plays.
It’s still a sick beat.
BTW, a few years ago I played real money Texas Hold-em online.
I would play small stakes tournaments.
In one tournament of 35 players, I hit quads 4 times.
I knew then that the whole thing was rigged.
If only one deck of cards, how can one player have a royal flush and another player have 4 aces?
That’s why it’s a 1 in 2.7 billion chance !!!!
/s
Seriously ?
It’s called Texas Hold-em.
I hit 4 of 6 the first time I played the lottery. It’s been downhill since then; haven’t won a thing. I coulda bought a few subway sandwiches with the winnings though.
Because there are common cards dealt face up on the table. These cards can be used by any and all players.
As an example, let's suppose you were dealt an ace and a four. I was dealt an ace and a seven.
And suppose that there were two aces dealt face up on the table. Even though there are only four aces in the deck, we would both have three aces (the one in our hand, plus the two on the table).
Who would actually win depends on who has the highest remaining card (the "kicker"). My dealt seven might not be the kicker if their are higher common cards on the table.
In Texas Hold-Em there are 5 community cards. So they shared two of the four Aces.
2.7 billion sounds high, but no doubt correct for the Royal scenario.
Any number of straight flushes would have beat the quads.
However, no betting strategy would work easily. Both players would eagerly be all in.
Actually Phillips was winning since the turn, the river did not change anything since Phillips already had the straight when the turn hit. Mabuchi could have only pushed him off preflop or on the flop. He might have been able to fold the aces had the fourth one not hit. I feel bad for the guy, he isn’t going to forget that one, although he probably feels the sting way less since he was already beat by the time the river hit. At least he has a nice story to tell his friends.
You are correct.
thanks.
It’s ironic.
If a Q, 10, or 9, comes up on the river then Mabuchi has a smaller hand than the quads, but beats Phillips.
Worst beat ever, and I have had some of the worst.
That guy probably went straight to a bar and is still drunk after that hand.
That’s all well and good until you meet a goofball that won $130,000,000.00...now I play.
I believe Dear Leader had more than 3 hole in one in a row.
I have had many near misses on a hole in one.
Rabbit threw one back!
In a session fifty years ago, when I played a ealer’s choice game regularly at university, my quad 6s were beat by quad 10s twice within two hours by the same player.
That still hurts...
I was once dealt pocket aces three hands in a row in a game.
I got the sense that “certain players” were “set-up” to win.
Not based on their abilities, but on their propensity to deposit more money.
As much as it sickened me, the wife and I still made the trip to the border and bought everyone a ticket.
If only one deck of cards, how can one player have a royal flush and another player have 4 aces?
Hint: Cards in the middle play for all players.
The closest Ive come in 30 yrs is an errant shot off the clubhouse roof...2 inches!...True story!!
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