# Texas Fold 'EM - Game #2 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [May 17, 2009, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-fold-em-game-2/496729 "2009-05-17T06:58:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2009, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-fold-em-game-2/496729/21 "2009-05-18T15:07:40Z")
Well, I’ll just say that all ten of my holecards are aces, and leave it at that. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2009, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-fold-em-game-2/496729/22 "2009-05-18T15:22:26Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Well, I’ll just say that all ten of my holecards are aces, and leave it at that. 😉 You are such a card. If anything, I would accuse you of not playing with a full deck.\* \*Two of my standard “Card” puns, but, then again, given your screen name, it has interesting synergy. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2009, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-fold-em-game-2/496729/23 "2009-05-18T15:25:24Z")
I was wondering is how I got a joker in each of my hands. ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2009, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-fold-em-game-2/496729/24 "2009-05-18T15:25:26Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Well, I’ll just say that all ten of my holecards are aces, and leave it at that. 😉 OR: Yeah, Me too! And then, I realized that, that was the card BACK. (They do make an Ace of Spades Card back deck.) And then again, I’ve heard that in Vietnam, US Playing Card [Bicycle brand] made decks of cards, that were 52 Ace of spades, with Regulation card back. It was explained, that the Ace of Spades was more or less seen as a “Death” card by the superstitious Vietnamese. ---
**Author:** ![Cyberhwk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7993a0/32.png) [@Cyberhwk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyberhwk)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2009, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-fold-em-game-2/496729/25 "2009-05-18T22:09:00Z")
The flop: Ac 3c 4c I think I’m gonna vomit. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Juggler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/juggler/32/3194_2.png) [@Juggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Juggler)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2009, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-fold-em-game-2/496729/26 "2009-05-18T22:49:37Z")
Someone straightflushed? ---
**Author:** ![Cyberhwk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7993a0/32.png) [@Cyberhwk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyberhwk)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2009, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-fold-em-game-2/496729/27 "2009-05-18T23:02:03Z")
No speculation sir. Everything will be revealed at the end. ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2009, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-fold-em-game-2/496729/28 "2009-05-18T23:50:00Z")
Then again, if he DID vomit, I would hope he would flush straight away… ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2009, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-fold-em-game-2/496729/29 "2009-05-19T00:23:56Z")
**CyberHwk** , You got my second folded cards via PM. ---
**Author:** ![Cyberhwk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7993a0/32.png) [@Cyberhwk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyberhwk)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2009, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-fold-em-game-2/496729/30 "2009-05-19T04:49:53Z")
TURN: Ad Board now reads: Ac 3c 4c Ad ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2009, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-fold-em-game-2/496729/31 "2009-05-19T13:19:03Z")
Folded my third hand via PM. ---
**Author:** ![Cyberhwk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7993a0/32.png) [@Cyberhwk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyberhwk)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2009, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-fold-em-game-2/496729/32 "2009-05-19T22:12:06Z")
The River: 9c Board: Ac 3c 4c Ad 9c Though it’s just a formality, go ahead and send me the hand your playing. ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2009, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-fold-em-game-2/496729/33 "2009-05-19T22:19:33Z")
> [@Cyberhwk](#): > > The River: 9c > > Board: Ac 3c 4c Ad 9c > > Though it’s just a formality, go ahead and send me the hand your playing. And my **one club** was in the hand I folded pre-flop. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2009, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-fold-em-game-2/496729/34 "2009-05-19T22:25:46Z")
> [@Meeko](#): > > And my **one club** was in the hand I folded pre-flop. :mad: I think this nicely displays a fun dynamic of this poker variant. You have _so_ many options, deciding which ones to keep and to eliminate is the challenge, of sorts. Though I imagine I’d have folded my single club also if the suits were terrible enough. Perhaps would have at least attempted to hold on to it 'til postflop. Who knows? _shrugs_ ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2009, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-fold-em-game-2/496729/35 "2009-05-19T22:39:42Z")
> [@Meeko](#): > > And my **one club** was in the hand I folded pre-flop. :mad: I also had one club pre flop, and it went into the muck I had three suited hands. Diamonds, hearts and spades. [phil hellmuth]I can’t beleive you’re playing those cards, idiot [/phil hellmuth] ---
**Author:** ![Cyberhwk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7993a0/32.png) [@Cyberhwk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyberhwk)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2009, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-fold-em-game-2/496729/36 "2009-05-19T22:39:59Z")
The problem with the one card flush in this variant is with so many hands in play you can pretty much GUARANTEE that any one card flush is going to be the nuts. In fact, given that flop it might not have been such a bad idea to fold anything other than a Kc or Qc anyway. Even if it hits, I can’t count on anything less than the nuts being good. …then again i guess there’s no betting so keeping it around wouldn’t hurt anything. ---
**Author:** ![Gadarene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Gadarene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadarene)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2009, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-fold-em-game-2/496729/37 "2009-05-19T22:42:37Z")
I’d like to play in the next go-round, or whenever you have an open seat. (Won $7K in a poker tournament a couple of weeks ago, and I want to ride the rush.) ---
**Author:** ![Cyberhwk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7993a0/32.png) [@Cyberhwk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyberhwk)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2009, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-fold-em-game-2/496729/38 "2009-05-20T05:10:22Z")
**IN FOURTH PLACE:** [spoiler] **notfrommensa** - Voluntarily folded everything :D. But the hole card camera revealed 9d5d for two pair, Aces and Nines with a 5. Mensa gets pretty hosed having cards suited in hearts, suited in spades, suited in diamonds… …and the flop comes 3 clubs. :smack:[/spoiler] **IN THIRD PLACE:** **Meeko** - Meeko flops the wheel with 5s2h after having folded his only club out of 10 cards preflop. **IN SECOND PLACE:** **Really Not All That Bright** - Kc3h makes a King high club flush. Hand was pretty straight forward. **AND IN THE \*\* ULTIMATE** story of goat to glory…\*\* Leaper. **FOLDED THE STRAIGHT FLUSH PREFLOP!** Five hands and he sends his 5c2c into the muck! However Leaper still hung onto his Ah4d and turned his Full House, Aces Full of Fours for the nuts and the win. (Interestingly enough Leaper KNOWS he had the absolute nuts at the end because he not only folded the straight flush but also had the last remaining ace. Congrats everyone. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2009, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-fold-em-game-2/496729/39 "2009-05-20T05:15:14Z")
Heh. Funny how things turn out. The 2c5c was my weakest hand, and I figured, what’re the odds? Pretty good, as it turned out. But then, as I told **Cyberhwk** , it was more interesting having things NOT be decided on the flop again, and I still had a not half bad two pair. The lucky turn card just cemented the irony all around. 🙂 This was fun! ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2009, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-fold-em-game-2/496729/40 "2009-05-20T13:22:29Z")
Nice hand. Bastard. 😉 Next hand? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-fold-em-game-2/496729.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-fold-em-game-2/496729.md?page=3)