The odds of two players making a flush at the same time in a poker game aren’t usually that great, but might be more than you think. With only three of a suit on board, that leaves ten cards of a suit to be had. Therefore, for two players to have a flush, you need four of the remaining ten suited cards to make the flush. That is slim enough that it doesn’t happen that often, but it is does happen, and when it happens, it can mean big cost for the player with the weaker of the two.
There is poker strategy for this.The first way to combat getting into a situation where you stand to lose a big part of your stack is to limit your flush draws to the nuts or nearby. Drawing to a non-nut flush is certainly tempting, but might end you up in a situation where you have to wonder if you are behind.
Though we can’t throw away all draws that aren’t ace high. Or we could, but that wouldn’t be very fun, and you don’t have to have the nuts to win. Remembering, though, that a flush alone doesn’t mean you have the key to the end, and reserving bets when you feel a reasonable chance that your opponent out-flushes you can help curtail those hurtful losses. Remember this for your next poker game.
