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One step down, but almost as good as a Royal Flush is a Strait Flush. Now, if you're playing
a community game, one of the holdem games, and you have any Strait Flush, you are in
very good shape. It's very unlikely that someone is going to be able to beat you. Lets look
at to play for a Strait Flush. Let's say that I have played Jack Ten, and I decided to see
the flop. And the flop comes and it's got two cards to my strait flush. Plus it give
me the flush draw, plus it gives me the strait draw. That's very strong. You need to think
very seriously before ever folding this draw. Because, looking at this scenerio with this
flop, I've got over fifteen outs. I haven't done the math, but I'm pretty sure I've got
twenty outs. Lets say, lets split the difference and say its seventeen. Using the rule of four
and two, which is often used in holdem poker. Then on the turn, I've got four times seventeen
of hitting my draw, which is fifty-one percent of a chance of making a hand that will win.
And even if we get down to the river, I've still got better than a thirty-three percent
chance of making my hand. What's more, if I do make my hand, I'm going to play it strong.
Because the only hands that beat my strait flush, are a better strait flush which in
the scenerio that I've shown here is impossible. And a royal flush. And again, in this hand,
its impossible for someone to get a royal flush and beat me.