I'll never see it again

arcticfox · #1 10-11-2005, 03:56 AM

In only the second week I had been playing stud H/L, one of my opponents hit 7 cards which resulted in his winning board being A234567 all [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] - have just calculated the odds on this and it appears it is 1 in 33,446,140 to get this hand. If only I'd saved the hand history. He got called all the way to the river though so not big pot, just a huge hand. I'm presuming that hand is the equivalent of the royal flush in hold'em in terms of being the best possible H/L hand you can get?

P.S. has anyone noticed how quiet the skins have got for stud since the switchover, seems like it is only worth playing on Party now?

Bremen · #2 10-11-2005, 08:40 AM

Last time I played stud/8 at the Taj one player showed a steel wheel. I thought that was rare enough :0)

Andy B · #3 10-11-2005, 10:50 PM

A friend of mine hit a six-card straight flush a while back. Seven-card straights and flushes are hard enough to come by, let alone straight flushes.

I'm reminded of a guy who used to play at Canterbury. Wally was 75 or so. He said, "I had a straight flush once in 1947. Haven't had one since."

arcticfox · #4 10-12-2005, 05:02 AM

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A friend of mine hit a six-card straight flush a while back. Seven-card straights and flushes are hard enough to come by, let alone straight flushes.

I'm reminded of a guy who used to play at Canterbury. Wally was 75 or so. He said, "I had a straight flush once in 1947. Haven't had one since."

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LOL. As it was only my second week playing and happened about 6 months ago I didn't really appreciate the odds, was only when I bothered to calculate them yesterday that I realised it was pretty special.