Hand of the Week: Straight Over Straight Over Straight!

Published 03/23/2025
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This week saw an incredible hand play out on Hustler Casino Live with a configuration that rarely appears in any player’s career.

Online players do tend to see the most obscene bad beats play out due to the high volume of hands played on the virtual felt. In the live arena, however, the rail doesn’t generally get treated to such roll outs as often.

Hand of the Week: Straight Over Straight Over Straight!Did You Ever See a Bad Beat Like This One?

Friday night’s game on Hustler Casino Live was a great watch. Plenty of action between players who looked to be enjoying each other’s company.

It was a $50/$100 ($100 big blind ante) game and the hand in question began with six players limping in to see a cheap flop. Nobody had anything resembling a hand to get excited about, but when the flop came down 5♦ 3♥ 4♠, five of the six players had a piece. “Raise and go aggressively,” they say.

But when we see these limped pots on TV poker shows, we often see somebody having a disaster hand. Small pot to begin with, so why push your luck for such a tiny edge. Things get out of control, though, don’t they?

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Dylan, Tomer, and William checked around to Ethan who had K♦ 5♣ in the LJ, and he tentatively bets out for $1,000 into the pot of $5,700.

Next up in the cutoff was Jasper, holding 6♠ 2♠ for the second nut straight. He decides to only call.

Back to Dylan in the small blind, he now raises it up to $4,000 with A♦ 2♣ and the third nut straight.

It looks messy already.

Tomer in the big blind had 5♥ 2♦ for top pair and a draw, but he wanted nothing more to do with the pot given the action in front.

William, the original limper in early position, has 7♦ 6♣ for the absolute nuts. Now he decides to slowplay. Three guys with a straight all thinking that they’re slow playing each other.

Ethan now folds his top pair with no draw, leaving the pot at $10,700.

Jasper now seizes the moment and jams in the rest of his $29,300, not knowing that he actually only has 15% equity with the second nuts.

Dylan puts in his remaining $19,450 with the third nuts and absolutely zero equity! William obviously calls.

The players look astounded, clearly not having seen anything like this for a long time.

The turn and river rolled off the 9♦ and K♠ which changed nothing and William scooped a pot of $50,350.

Make sure to check out the full hand replay in the tweet above.

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