Crazy poker hand

I have put in some serious hours at the poker table while on my holiday break from school. I wanted to post the results of the craziest poker hand in which I've ever been involved. The game is $1/2 No Limit Texas Hold 'Em, the game I am currently trying to figure out. I am sitting in middle position. 2 or 3 people limp in for $2 ahead of me and I look down and see 7 diamonds, 9 diamonds. Decent enough, I limp in as well. A player to my left raises it up to $12. By the time it gets back around to me, there are 4 or 5 people in the hand so I call. For the purposes of this post, let's say the pot is $60.

The flop comes down with 6, 7, 8 including one diamond. The guy first to act goes all in for about $110. The next guy to act calls and has several hundred dollars left behind him. It folds around to me. I have an open ended straight draw and a backdoor flush draw, plus I have a pair so it's not inconceivable I could make a big hand. I have about $140 in chips (a point that becomes quite important in a moment). The first guy in has been playing wild cards all day so I put him on two pair, a low straight or perhaps the highest possible straight. The guy who called next I put on a set (3 of a kind). At this point the pot is $280 so I'm getting about 2 to 5 or 40% on my money. With my eight outs to the straight, I have approximately 32% chance of hitting the straight and a couple points more for either the flush draw or any other craziness. I go in the tank.

While I'm thinking about it, I count out my chips to see exactly how much I have. I stack the chips in front of my cards, which I didn't realize counts as having made the call. I was leaning towards calling, or more likely going all in for my last 35 to 40 chips, so I wasn't too upset at the ruling. Then, all hell breaks loose.

The dealer immediately peels off the turn and the river. The turn is the 5 of diamonds, giving me the straight and a flush draw (as well as a gutshot straight flush draw). The river is the Q of spades so I miss the flush but make the low straight. BUT, the dealer messed up. Since the second guy in the hand and I both have chips still, the dealer should have dealt only the turn but not the river yet. So, the floor gets called over and they take the Q of spades, put her back in the deck, shuffle up and let us act after the turn. Of course, I put the rest of my chip s in and the other guy calls. The river is dealt - cue up the hallelujah music as the Q of diamonds peels off.

Guy #1 turns over his 9-T for the nut straight. Guy 2 turns over his pocket 6s for a set and I flip over my re-rivered flush to take down the pot. Pot was somewhere in the neighborhood of $650 or so, my biggest score ever. And I completed the craziest hand of poker I have ever played.

PS Looking back over this post, the action doesn't match up to the final pot size. Not sure exactly where I messed up the action but I'm sure the final pot was in the neighborhood of $650. Wow!

Until next time.

Ace