Quote Originally Posted by Ripptyde

nothing like raising pre flop with 5/7os and getting reraised...calling the reraise and flopping K/6/9....checking....calling the flop bet by Mister King and hitting a 8 on the turn...its pure poetry and takes down a HUGE pot
For this to be correct mathematicaly both players in the hand need pretty fucking large stacks, because you need great implied odds. You're also hoping that the board doesn't pair or show three of a suit for two reasons. One the off chance it gives the other guy a better hand than a straight and two it will be at least a little but harder to extract value from your straight if he's worried about trips or a flush. Again this affects your implied odds, so you need to be playing with a large stack and against a large stack.