Just so people know, its a gut shot

[KidHavok]

I have read alot of posts on here about people playing ace rag or they have ak, it really doesnt matter. when someone has a234 or akqj, these hands are not open ended, they are a gut shot. You cannot go higher or lower than and ace so you are dead to ONE Card. You have the same percentage of making a straight whether it is a234 or a345, you are dead to one card. Just posting this because, a lot of people have made comments about their "open End" straight draw, and it was really a gut shot. Sorry, just trying to straighten this one up.

 

[Grumbledook]

well technically its 4 cards they are drawing too not 1

just wanted to clear that up ;]

(unless of course some of the other cards are exposed already, or are counterfeited with flush draws etc)

 

[KidHavok]

i am aware of that but it is still a gut shot

 

[mattisme]

i hate it when ppl go for the inside draw when i already have a made hand....they always catch it on the river:frown:

 

[gjshand]

I have definatly heard it called just that "a Gut-shot" Straight draw, but i don't like it.

Borrowed from a MAJOR poker rooms definitions:

“Gut Shot” – To draw to and/or hit an inside straight.
“Inside Straight” – Four cards which require another between the top and the bottom card to complete a straight.

Wouldn't a term like say "single-sided" or "single-ended" straight draw be more apt?

I would prefer it anyway.

 

[Grumbledook]

or straight draw ;]

i like the term gut shot

of course the best being the double belly buster straight draw

poker lingo is great!

 

[Leroydubz]

Thanks I don't know why I never thought of it like that. Gut shot draws are my least favorite draw and I always get rid of them. Sometimes un justifiably

 

[sibkaz]

Everyone has their own tactics... If an opponent, having AK, sees that everyone has discarded their cards, they believe that the bigger ones will come on the turn or river...

 

[bablovod]

Wow, this kind of reasoning, as it is now, was 20 years ago.
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