River Suck Out in $5-$150 Spread Limit Game

         The other night I was playing a $5-$150 spread limit hold’em game at the local casino when I ran into this hand.

         I was in the big blind with the seven, nine suited in hearts. Three players limp into the pot and I am very content to check and see what happens on the flop. The flop hits me in the face with king, six , eight of hearts giving me a flush with  open ended redraws to a straight flush. There is $20 in the pot and the small blind fires out fifteen dollars, I am overjoyed. I am really short stacked at this time so there is no real need to slow play so I go all in with my last thirty five dollars. the other two people in the hand fold immediately and it gets back to the small blind. He then turns to me and asks if I flopped the flush. I look him in the eye and tell him the truth. So he proceeds to tell me he flopped two pair and he calls. At this point I’m still happy. What an idiot and thank you very much are going through my head at this point.

Holdem Hi: 100,000 sampled boards containing K 8 6
Player 1 (9 7): win 83.21% lose 16.79% tie 0.00% EV 0.832
Player 2 (8 K): win 16.79% lose 83.21% tie 0.00% EV 0.168

         Being an eighty three percent favorite on the flop and having redraws to the absolute nuts is a good feeling indeed. The turn is a complete blank (the four of diamonds) making me now an almost ninety one percent favorite and only dodging four outs (the two remaining kings and eights)

But then………..

        The very unlikely eight of clubs hits the river giving the villain a full house and the rest of my money.  It was then time to go home and do battle another day.

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