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Does he have it?

One of the frequent puzzles you have to solve when playing no-limit hold’em is the situation in which you have either top pair on the flop or an overpair to the board, but by the end of the hand you have to figure out whether your opponent made a flush.

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Royal flush: A straight from a ten to an ace with all five cards in the same suit. Straight Flush: Any straight with all five cards in the same suit. Four of a Kind or Poker or Quads: Any four cards of the same rank. If two players share the same four of a kind (on the board), the larger fifth card (the “kicker”) decides who wins the pot. Straight Flush: Any five card sequence in the same suit. 8,9,10,J,Q and A, 2,3,4,5 of same suit). All the cards are of the same suit, and all are consecutive. Ranking between straights is determined by the value of the high end of the straight.

If I could do this correctly every single time, I’d be rich. I’m not rich, so you can be sure I don’t have a 100% accurate formula worked out. But there’s a tell involved in this situation that arises frequently enough that it’s well worth knowing about.

A couple of years ago, I was playing my usual game, $1/$2 no-limit hold’em, at what was then the Imperial Palace in Las Vegas, now renamed The Quad. Early in the session, I was in the small blind with -offsuit, and after one player made a small raise and another called, I decided to call as well. (If you want to question the wisdom of that call, I won’t fault you, though it worked out well this time.) The flop was a delightful , with two hearts.

I decided to fast-play this situation, and made a lead-out bet. The original raiser folded, then the other player called. His most likely hands were a , an , or a flush draw.

The turn was a third heart. Before I acted, I noticed that he rechecked his hole cards. A-ha! That strongly suggested that he did not have a flush draw that had just come in.

Why do I say this? Here’s why.

Most recreational players don’t memorize the suits of their cards. They retain a visual memory that they have either two red cards, two black cards, or one red and one black, but they don’t know the suits with any confidence.

If he’d had two red cards, he would have rechecked them on the flop to see if he had a flush draw before deciding whether to call. But he didn’t. He only rechecked them on the turn, suggesting that he had one red card and one black card. He was checking to see if he now had a backdoor flush draw that he might make on the river.

After he called my flop bet, I was planning to check if a heart came on fourth street, thinking that the draw was his most likely hand, but when I saw him check his cards again when the third heart came, that changed my mind. I bet and he folded.

I think he probably had a black king and a smaller red card. Most likely, he discovered that his red card was a diamond, or it was a heart but too small for him to have confidence that his flush would be the winner even if the river brought a fourth heart.

The key to this tell is understanding that players want to know if they have a flush draw — it makes a big difference in deciding whether to call. Having done so, they no longer need to recheck their hole cards once they actually make the flush. For the many players who exhibit this particular tell, then, the trick is to know that the “suit check” is intended to determine whether they have a flush draw, not whether they have a made flush.

If a player’s hole cards are the same color (red or black), he’ll tend to recheck them when the board has two cards of the same suit in that color. If his cards are of different colors, however, he’ll usually check them only when the board has three of a suit in that color on the flop or turn.

This tell is common enough to be highly profitable and worth watching for, but is no more universal than anything else in poker. Some caveats:

• Some players always memorize the suits of their down cards, and never need to recheck them later in the hand. (I recommend this practice to you.)
• Some players do memorize their suits, but when their flush comes in they want to reassure themselves that they didn’t misread their cards, so will recheck before committing a lot more money to the pot.
• Some players are aware of the tell I’ve described and are smart enough to use it deceptively against you. Such players will check their hole cards when a third suited card hits the board in order to make you think they only now have a draw, when their flush is actually made. Or they will check their cards when the flop has two of a suit in order to make you think they have the flush draw, so that they can bluff when the third suited card comes. But this species of player is relatively rare in low-stakes games.

Remember that a player rechecking his cards is most often looking for a flush draw rather than a completed flush, and you’ll be well on your way to knowing how to play your big pair against him.

Robert Woolley lives in Asheville, NC. He spent several years in Las Vegas and chronicled his life in poker on the “Poker Grump” blog.

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Need a reminder of the rankings in an easy to print format? Click the image below to get a printable poker hand rankings chart pdf (opens in new tab).

Poker Hand Rank #1 - Royal Flush

The highest of all Poker hands, a Royal Flush is 10, J, Q, K, A of the same suit:

Poker Hand Rank #2 - Straight Flush

A Straight Flush is five cards in consecutive numerical order, all of the same suit.
If there are two Straight Flushes at the same table, the one which runs to the highest value card wins.

Poker Hand Rank #3 - Four of a kind

Four of a kind means four cards of the same value and any other card.
If there are two hands with Four of a kind in the same game, the highest ranking Four of a kind wins i.e. four Ks beats four 9s.

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Poker Hand Rank #4 - Full house

A Full House is three cards of the same value and another two cards that form a pair (same value).
If two players have a Full House (with the joker), the rank is decided first by the Three of a kind, then by the pair.

Poker Hand Rank #5 - Flush

A Flush is five non-consecutive cards of the same suit.
The Flush is named after the highest card, so the example below is a Jack Flush.
If two players have the same Flush, the rank is decided by the second highest card. In the unlikely event of the first two cards in two Flushes being the same, the rank is decided by the third card, then the fourth, then the fifth.

Poker Hand Rank #6 - Straight

A Straight is five consecutive cards, but not of the same suit.
As with the Straight Flush, in the event of a tie, the winner is the flush which runs to the highest value card.
A 'Straight to'means the highest card in the run, so 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 is a 'Straight to 9'

Poker Hand Rank #7 - Three of a kind

Three cards of the same value, and two supporting cards that are not a pair:

Poker Hand Rank #8 - Two pair

Two sets of pairs, and another random card.
In the unlikely event of two players having the same two pairs, the highest supporting card is used to determine the winner.

Poker Hand Rank #9 - Pair

Two cards of the same value and three random supporting cards.
If two players have a pair, the highest pair wins. In the event of a tie, the highest supporting cards determine the winner.

Poker Hand Rank #10 - High card

A hand with none of the above rankings.
The hand is named after the highest card, 7 high being the lowest, Ace high the highest. The example below is therefore a King high.