Danielle “dmoongirl” Andersen, a longtime high-stakes poker professional, hit a hand at Aria in Las Vegas that might make any poker participant envious. She tweeted out a photograph and transient video of a hand that concerned two straight flushes coolering a number of gamers in a double board pot-limit Omaha bomb pot money recreation.
The hand occurred in a recreation within the Desk 1 excessive curler room (previously Ivey Room). Andersen, a daily in massive video games, has performed loads of sizable pots in her life. She’s definitely received and misplaced quite a few coolers and certain hit a straight flush or a royal flush at the least a handful of occasions. However the hand she shared on X is hard to prime.
Double Board Bomb Pot Insanity
Double board bomb pot PLO is as motion of a poker recreation as any. Every participant is dealt 4 face-down playing cards, identical to in conventional PLO. However the place it differs is the gamers all put in a name to go on to the flop — no preflop motion — and two separate boards are dealt. Gamers then try and make the most effective five-card hand doable from every board, and it’s doable to scoop all the pot, successful each boards.
Given that each participant dealt playing cards will get to see the flop in a bomb pot recreation, the probabilities of a number of gamers hitting a giant hand will increase. And it will increase even additional in a double board recreation. So, seeing some monster fingers in double board bomb pot PLO is not surprising. Nonetheless, the hand under is about as uncommon as they arrive given a number of gamers have been coolered in opposition to two straight flushes.
The pot, from the images above, seems to have over $20,000 within the center with some extra all in cash to be added. Andersen had 10♥6♥4♥7♦ within the gap.
The highest board got here out 7♥9♥8♦8♥A♣, giving “dmoongirl” a straight flush with 10♥6♥. She hit a second straight flush on the underside board — 3♥5♥8♣10♣2♥ — with 6♥4♥.
Two straight flushes in the identical hand is uncommon even for double board pot-limit Omaha. What’s even rarer is to hit these fingers in opposition to full homes. And that is precisely what occurred in Andersen’s favor.
One participant held Q♥10♠9♣9♦ for nines-full on the highest board, whereas the opposite participant had A♥A♦5♣4♣ for aces-full on the highest board and a straight on the underside board.
“You recognize what’s higher than one straight flush? Two of them,” Andersen requested and answered in a short video taken following the hand by Paul Gunness.
That reply is hard to argue.
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