Poker news tagged with 'royal flush'

A man from Perth has amazingly turned a $15 poker punt into a whopping $3.6 million win to claim what’s now called Australia’s biggest ever casino table jackpot.

The lucky player instantly became a millionaire when he managed to procure a royal flush with only a $15 side bet at Crown Perth Casino on Saturday (June 8) evening.

Royal Flush

In poker, a flush is a hand that is composed of five cards bearing the same suit.

A royal flush is the highest possible form of the flush, in sequential rank. The highest value straight flush involves the cards 10, J, Q, K, and Ace with all of them in the same suit.

Read more » Aussie Poker Player Wins $3.6 Million with Royal Flush at Perth Casino from $15 Bet

‘If you can’t win at the poker tables, then try your luck at the video poker machines.’ – This worked really well for one poker player not only once, but five times now!

On his WSOP profile, American poker pro Kyle Cartwright has a total of eight WSOP Circuit rings and one WSOP bracelet. Currently he has a total of $2.1 million for playing the game, and even if he’s doing well on the live poker scene, he’s actually also becoming known as incredibly lucky on playing video poker machines.Read more » After Busting WSOP Circuit event, Poker Pro wins $100k for hitting Royal Flush on Video Poker Machine

The main idea behind a charity poker tournament is to collect money for the less fortunate. It's not that common that players actually leave a chairty tournament with more than their buy-in back.

Read more » Flopped Royal Flush At Charity Event - Won $100,000!

A very interesting hand was played out the other day at PokerStars when the Swedish poker pro Joel "Odonkor1" Nordkvist flopped a royal flush in an all in situation against his opponent Ashton "theASHMAN103" Griffin and took down a pot of nearly $40,000! The chance of getting a royal flush in Texas Holdem is 1 in 649,740, so you can probably figure out how great the feeling must be to take down such a big pot with this kind of hand!

Here is how the hand was played out:

PokerStars Game #46879706754: Hold'em No Limit ($100/$200 USD) - 2010/07/17 5:59:54 ET
Table 'Agrius' 6-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: Odonkor1 ($72178 in chips)
Seat 4: theASHMAN103 ($19228 in chips)
Odonkor1: posts small blind $100
theASHMAN103: posts big blind $200

Read more » HighStakes: Swede takes home $40k pot with royal flush