What are the odds? Did I get cheated?
I was playing on a table and a big rucku took place prior to the hand. Somehow a casino employee that was collecting the chip boxes managed to knock over the stack of player number 2. Player 2 stands up and makes a big scene about it. Eventually the staff came over and picked the chips up off the floor.
Then the hands were dealt. I was BB. I got J7 of hearts and didn't think twice about the commotion. Two people limped in. I checked. The flop comes A24 all hearts. So I have a flopped flush.
I'm in first position and I bet 30 at the 5/10 game. The next hand raises 60 and the button calls the 90 bet. I then go all in and both players call.
We all turn over flushes. The turn is another heart followed by a spade on the river.
The button had the king of hearts and won the hand. He had won an earlier all in hand when he called pockets queens with on an A8 off.
Does this sound suspicious? What are the odds of three people hitting flushes on the flop?
In retropsect you are correct!
It seemed that when I bet and the other person raised that they were probably on a heart draw or they had a paired ace with a decent kicker. There was also a straight draw on the board. So there were a lot of options. As it turned out the person that raised me only had a ten high flush. The person that I figured as the possible cheater had the k and smooth called. I would have done the same with his hand.
With the ace of hearts on the board I figured the odds of someone else flopping a flush with the K or Q kicker were slim. I feared that they might be shopping for the extra heart to complete their flush, therefore, I went all in to run off the possible flush hunters. Remember, only two cards existed that would beat my hand and they had to already be paired with another heart. Otherwise the person would have only had less than a 24% chance of hitting another heart.
How would you have played any different?
Don't want to sound like a troll here, but honestly with that kind of action with a flush flop, did you really expect to have the best hand? Not faulting your play at all, and while it is rare to have 3 people have a flush, not totally unheard of.
As for the odds of you being cheated, I would say precisely zero. Worked at casino's before and something like this is would require the total and complete ignorance of security in the casino as well as the dealer at the casino being an inside man. If I was a dealer and wanted to make money stealing from my employer, there are far less involved and far more profitable ways to go about it.[/quote]
