Poker.com – Rare Hands
Category: Poker
www.poker.com – We can wait a long time to find a hand which is extremely rare in poker. The most obvious and well known of course is the royal flush, but there are other instances where cards appear on the river to complete an unlikely hand. I do not know just how authentic this particular one was, but there was a video of an online cash game which I saw involving Tom Dwan today.
I belive it involved Dwan with (8h,6h) and his opponent with (10,10). The flop came down a miraculous (10x,10x,7h) followed by the turn of (9h). After raising action on the flop, Dwan shoved in his money of over $100,000 on the river and was quickly called. He then proceeded to complete a Straight Flush on the river. As I said I cannot vouch for the authenticity myself, but amazing things do happen in poker. In the case just mentioned Dwan had 2 outs, someone recently hit one of their 2 outs on the river against me and it is quite a shock for both players when it happens. It may not seem all that rare to pick up any given starting hand in Holdem, but this can be more the case in Omaha.
I recently got dealt a perfect starting hand online of (Ah,Kh,Kc,Ac). Aces and Kings double suited is far more rare than a simple pair of Aces in Holdem as you would imagine, and there is no stronger hand in Omaha.
Whichever rare hands you eventually find yourself looking down at, the most important thing will always be how you play them, as any great hand is only the beginning of your hard work as a player. poker.com