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making
the hand in the next two cards. You can do that because
you know the raise will make the pot big enough so that
you'll be getting pot odds to call on the turn.
One consideration to making your flush is when someone else
makes a bigger flush. It's a consideration-but it's not
as an important one as many think. The major reason it's
not as important is that it's not likely anyone is drawing
to the same flush you are. Of the thirteen Hearts, you have
two of them, and two are on the board. That only leaves
nine unaccounted for. Contrast this to the situation where
there are two Hearts on the board, and you don't have a
Heart. Then eleven Hearts are unaccounted for, a substantial
difference. Because of the combinatorial features of the
mathematics involved, this difference is much larger than
the 20 percent it might seem.
The other reason it's not as important as it might seem
is that if two of you do actually have the same draw, it's
now much less likely that you'll make the draw. Among you,
the board, and the other players, you've accounted for six
of the flush cards.
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