'Odonkor1' flops royal flush in $40,000 pot | Online Poker Club MPC

Every day, thousands of hands are played online on the high stakes. We see hands were people win or lose cash amounts in one hand were normal people need to work for a whole year.

Following the high stakes action online becomes even more fun when hands like te following take place:

Joel “Odonkor1″ Nordkvist en Ashton “theASHMAN103″ Griffin played a session of $100/$200 No Limit Texas Hold’em heads up. They got all-in preflop with queens (Griffin) versus AK suited (Nordkvist), and when ASHMAN saw a third queen on the flop, he was probably happy and counting the money already…untill he saw the rest of the flop:

Seat 1: Odonkor1 ($72178 in chips)
Seat 4: theASHMAN103 ($19228 in chips)

Odonkor1: posts small blind $100
theASHMAN103: posts big blind $200

*** HOLE CARDS ***
Odonkor1: raises $400 to $600
theASHMAN103: raises $1450 to $2050
Odonkor1: raises $2350 to $4400
theASHMAN103: raises $14828 to $19228 and is all-in
Odonkor1: calls $14828
*** FLOP ***
*** TURN ***
*** RIVER ***
*** SHOW DOWN ***
theASHMAN103: shows (three of a kind, Queens)
Odonkor1: shows (a Royal Flush)
Odonkor1 collected $38454 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $38456 | Rake $2
Board
Seat 1: Odonkor1 (button) (small blind) showed and won ($38454) with a Royal Flush

By the way, the odds for a Royal Flush in Texas Hold’em are 1 in 649,740…