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Double
Belly Busters - Made
Easy
Article by "Bullet Bob" Maxwell,
12/18/08.
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Some
might think that this piece could be more accurately named "Double
Inside Straights" but "Double Belly Busters" is
too amusing and well accepted to ignore. . I like to give the
great Doyle Brunson credit for the folksy expression "Belly
Buster" for an inside straight, because he seems
to be good at coming up with nifty stuff like this. . . But
even if one of his buddies or someone else actually coined
the phrase, Doyle with his high recognition and prominence
in the industry, has to get the credit for making Belly Buster
and Double Belly Busters (DBBs) part of today's colorful poker
language.
Since it
always takes five cards to make a DBB, Texas Hold'em and Omaha
players can make these on the flop, while Seven Stud players
can have them on fifth street. . Even though DBBs make a fairly
strong flop or fifth street draw hand, they can be a little
difficult to spot and often go un-noticed. . Since you have
two draws to get at least one of two denominations needed for
a straight, the strength of the draw hand is the same as a
four card open-end straight (about 31% for or 2 to 1 against).
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Five
Card Double Belly Busters can be any of eight similar
but different groups from A to 7 on up. Any one of these can
be described as a 7 card "straight" draw with two
gaps and a 3 card straight in the middle. . Or, if you prefer,
a 3 card straight that makes an inside straight draw on both
the high and low ends. . Either way, All five
card DBBs are configured just like this:
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If you should
happen to have five of the seven cards needed for seven straight
and you don't have both ends or if the gaps are other than
shown above, you might have a good hand but you don't have
a DBB. . . Here are all of the eight possible DBBs:
The
Eight Possible Double Belly Busters
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A
-345- 7
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2
-456- 8
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3
-567- 9
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4
-678- 10
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5
-789- J
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6
-89T- Q
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7
-9TJ- K
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8
-TJQ- A
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Since five
card hands are of course, hardly ever dealt in this orderly
way, it helps to be on the alert for DBBs. . .When you get
your first five cards and can't find anything you like better,
look for a 3 card straight to see if it will make a DBB draw
that you might want to use.
Now, for
whatever it's worth, you probably know more about "Double
Belly Busters" than ninety percent of the poker players
in the world ::
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