I know, youre reading this headline and scratching your head. A flush beats a straight, you say to yourself. How is a straight better than a flush? Well, what if I also told you that pocket fives are better than pocket aces?
All joking aside, what I mean by this is that hands like straights and pocket fives can reap you more money in the long run because they can make strong hands that are well hidden. Its not enough to make a strong hand in holdem; you also need to get paid off on that hand to make it worthwhile.
Players are always very wary when three of a suit lands on the board in holdem and the presence of the third card often slows down the betting. Potential straight cards, on the other hand, dont always have the same effect. Consider a flop of 9-J-2, with you holding 10-Q. If an 8 comes on the river, you are likely to get paid off, whereas if you were drawing to a flush maybe you dont reap as much. Why are players more wary of flushes? That is a hard one to explain. Perhaps its easier to keep up with the symbols on the cards than worrying about counting five cards in a row. After all, in school we learn how to match symbols together, but they dont teach us...
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