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Some Advice for When the Flush Arrives (and You Don’t Have It)
The fifth-best poker hand is a flush, which is formed when a player uses their own hand and the five community cards dealt by the dealer to form five cards of the same suit. If you have the 7 of hearts and the jack of hearts, and the community cards are the 8 of hearts, the king of hearts, the 2 of diamonds, the 3 of clubs, and the 5 of hearts, you have a flush in Texas Hold ’em. Why? You can make a winning hand because you have seven cards and can form a straight with five different suits (hearts.) Generally speaking, a flush has a good chance…