It’s basically the same as having the K high flush when someone has the nut flush - provided you get a board where 2 straight flushes are possible of course. That is fairly rare, but when it does happen, seeing 2 straight flushes is not unheard of.
I disagree. Anything is possible. Should I could get struck by lighting twice, in the same day, right? Now, two straight flushes are possible, but what are the odds of two straight flushes in the same suit? With 9 players. Do the math, yes, it’s possible, with your logic anything is possible and that’s true, but highly unlikely. And then the player just left the game! That to me is really strange. I commented about how rare this was and then he just left.
It’s not that unlikely because they’re not independent. You’re sharing 3 or 4 community cards (note that this makes it impossible for there ever to be flushes with different suits). The same player getting a straight flush twice in one day is far less likely than two players ending up with a straight flush in the same hand.
(A) I hope you got it all in because the odds that you would lose are very slim … unless …
(B) It’s a flop game where your holdings only contribute 2 cards to the low end of a straight flush because, now your opponent only needs to contribute 2 cards to the high end of that same straight.
So it boils down to the odds that your opponent would have 2 contiguous diamonds (happens all the time … happened to you in fact).
It’s a super rare loss for sure, but it happens. If it was a non-flop game, then it’s even rarer still for them to be the same suit … but it happens, you know it happens, it happened to you.
I lost a straight flush to a higher straight flush just the other day in a non flop game … I think they were different suits, but I didn’t dwell on it.
If you play poker all the time, it will probably happen to you again someday … good luck!
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PS, I have some software I wrote that just deals hands, no-one folds, best hand wins.
I track split pots and bad beats. It’s a non-flop deal so to hit 2 straight flushes of the same suit would take forever (I’m guessing)
I had it deal hands until it counted 1000 royal flushes.
It took nearly 32 million hands for it to reach that point, I then went over the bad beats to see if I could find a straight flush losing. It was tedious finding an instance (Split pots being so common, have to dig through a ton of them). And there it was 6 hi lost to K hi. There may well be other instances because out of those ~32 million hands, there were the 1000 royals and 8882 other straight flushes.
7 players, 7 cards each, I did find one instance where a pot was split three ways with three identical straights!
OK one more, and then I’ll shut up.
I found a bad beat where Queens full lost to Aces full, which in turn lost to quad Sevens!
I don’t dwell on it. Real short, that player needs to run like hell up to a real casino. If I had his money at the time, I’d throw mine away.