How Dream Flop turned into a huge Nightmare by Straight Flush on the river

 

Players and Hole Cards:

• Zeidman: 9♦ 8♦

• Harman: Q♦ Q♣

Community Cards:

• Flop: 10♠ J♦ Q♥

• Turn: 10♦

• River: 7♦

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Step-by-step Analysis:

Flop: 10♠ J♦ Q♥

• Zeidman: Open-ended straight draw (needs a 7 or King).

• Harman: Top set (three Queens).

  • Harman is way ahead here, with about 98% equity.

Turn: 10♦

• Zeidman: Still drawing, now has a flush draw and straight draw.

• Harman: Full house (Queens full of Tens).

  • Her hand improved, now beating any lower full house or flush.

  • Zeidman’s chance of winning drops even further — only a very specific runout can save him (a diamond that completes a straight flush).

River: 7♦

• Zeidman: Hits 9♦ 8♦ with board J♦ 10♦ 7♦ = Straight Flush!

  • 7♦ gives him a five-card diamond flush: 7♦ 8♦ 9♦ 10♦ J♦

  • This is stronger than a full house.

• Harman: Still has Queens full of Tens (a very strong hand), but it's now beaten.

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Result:

• Zeidman wins with a straight flush, an extremely rare and powerful hand.

• Harman, despite flopping top set and turning a full house, loses in a brutal river twist — an example of a "bad beat."

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Conclusion:

This is a textbook poker cooler:

• Harman has a monster with a full house.

• Zeidman hits one of the few perfect river cards — the 7♦ — giving him a straight flush and snatching victory in a 2% situation.

Painful for Harman, legendary for Zeidman.

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