[noelsarchs]

Well, this is good. I'm at a new girlfriends house today for easter dinner. Afterwards I break out my chips for a game that the 17 year old boys want to play next Friday for his birthday party.

OK, the kid knows nothing about poker so I decide to teach him,brother, mom and grandma the game by dealing around the table and explaining the rules and the hand rankings at each turn of the cards. About 20 hands later....they are starting to get it, so I deal the cards face down and walk around to see each one saying what their options are.

So grandmom (a young 84 and bridgeplayer) is dealt to the right of the button.

I go around and tell people what they might want to do with their cards, the possibilities for each pair pre flop, which ways they could bet being either conservative or agressive, etc.

So we then do the flop...

Now, one of the boys has two hearts, another has an Ace, etc. So it's practice right? I tell grandma that she has the kind of hand that you drool over and would probably have to call anything or raise,etc.

Turn is

Now there are two flush draws on the board, but I go through the routine with each one at the table and get back to grandma in last position.

I tell her that she has to call the bet with so many outs and it's a Royal Flush draw, heart flush and straight draw all at once.

River

And I almost fell out of my chair.

Yes, it was practice but it was the coolest thing I've even seen at the card table.

[StevenH72]

I once dealt a RF over a £1 flip!! Now that was a disappointing situation fo such a momentus occassion!

[NoFear]

The odds is 65K to one Royal Flush. Very nice norl.

[Jonah 99]

In a friend & family Easter play session (no money) had a player hit a gut shot straight flush draw today.

weird how these things pop up in the pretend sessions.

[Quads]

We've had *one* in our home game. (not dealt by me but out regular dedicated dealer). It's always a pretty cool thing to see. She (the player) was pretty thrilled with the results as she got some pretty good action on it IIRC. It was 3 or 4 years ago.

[NoFear]

Forgot to mention about 4 months ago, we play .05/.10 NL cash. One of the player got club royal flush.

I could I forget that you.

[shanghai_sparky]

Did you teach Grandmum how to push all-in?

[Hokie-NC]

Originally Posted by shanghai_sparky

Did you teach Grandmum how to push all-in?

First of all, that just sounds disgusting

I was playing in our home game about half a year ago. I can't remeber the exact cards, but on the turn I hit a full house. On the river a flush draw became possible. Now I am giddy, becuase I know someone had hit the flush. I go all in and get called.

Turns out I was right. He hit the flush. . . the royal flush.

I was so excited about my boat and the flush potential, that I never dreamed he had a royal.

[Brewster]

In the past year and a half, I have dealt out three royal flushed (one club, one spade, and on diamond).

The royal spade flush was in a heads up game against my nemesis and good buddy. I ended up holding a full house to his flopped royal and avoided going broke on the river when his betting pattern took a strange turn. I folded face up saying I was probably the tightest play of my life and that I got a really bad feeling on the river. That was when he showed me his royal murmering "good fold".

[viet rounder]

Congrats,

I had the honor of catching this twice during my life. Both times were hearts and were in close time period to eachother. It is a thing of beauty but often does not pay well since there are very few hands out there that could pay it off (usually boat or flush).