A staggeringly rare hand occurred on Hustler Casino Live’s Fright night stream, resulting in an $80,000 pot.
There was a ton of big hands and interesting play on the Friday night stream, which is the norm for that always-entertaining cash game as HCL has already produced one of the early hands of the year.
This improbable hand stood out for its rarity and astronomical odds.
The Improbable Hand
Six players saw a flop in the $50/$100 game which came 5♦3♥4♠.
Viewers quickly noticed that three of the six hands were different straights to create an ultra-rare straight-over-straight-over-straight scenario.
- Jasper: 6♠2♠
- Flashner: A♦2♣
- William: 7♦6♣
William had flopped the best of it with the nut straight while Jasper and Flashner were completely dominated with worse straights.
Jasper was the one who pushed the action by moving all in on the flop which was of course called by Flashner and William as the other players in the hand got out of the way.
The players revealed their cards to see the crazy scenario of straight flopped straights. The board ran out safely for William’s straight as he took down the large pot for almost $80,000.
Odds of Three Flopped Straights
The poker hand odds of flopping a straight for one player is 1.3% or 76-to-1 if the one player has connector cards, which in this particular hand one of the players did with the seven-six. But if a player does not have connecting cards the odds become more complex.
In this hand, ace-deuce and six-deuce had the lowest odds of flopping a straight with a .033% chance since they have just one way to flop it (5-4-3), which in this case came with the exact three cards needed for both coming on the flop.
So the odds of a 5-4-3 runout alone is .033%, or 1-in-3,030. However, figuring out the odds of three different flopped straights is an incredibly complex question that requires a level of mathematics and number theory that goes far beyond even advanced mathematics.
Exact calculations would require all the permutations where three players are holding cards that fit specific straight patterns. In layman’s terms, the odds of three people getting to the flop with hands that can all make the same 1-in-3,030 straight is extremely low.
Without running the necessary simulations, it’s almost certain that the odds would be one in many, many millions.
Calculating Exact Odds Would Require
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The probabilities of each player being dealt specific hole cards.
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The likelihood of those hole cards interacting with the flop to form a straight.
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The combinations of flop cards that allow for different straight hands for each player.
It is a rare enough event to not be seen very often, with very few regular players ever recalling a three straights in one hand scenario that they have been involved in or even seen at one of their tables.
Luckily for the sake of our entertainment, this instance was caught on camera in a massive leverage spot.