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Message: [QUOTE="Barrettm95, post: 637673, member: 27064"] Let me just start by saying: I hate straights. I won a hand with one yestersay perhaps for the only time in my recent career. I have great difficulty recognising if there is a straight on the board or if I have one or a draw if it is the nut. Is there some rule or guideline I need to know? It's kind of a tell if im counting on my fingers at the table :D I need something more subtle. Flushes are better than straights but so much easier. If there are 3 suited cards somebody probably has a flush; simple. If you have A-x suited and three more pop up, you have the nut; again simple. Full houses are better yet and still easier than a straight to recognise. Pair on the board=possible. Trips on the board=likely. twopair on the board=almost definate and probably more than one player has one. and if you hit a set with the bigger pair you have the nut. Yet I get bit in the ass by straights all the time. Some help please? [/QUOTE]