The O8B Drawing Blues

I don't know how it's possible, but in a span of 3 hands, I managed to miss TWO 19-outers. Let's count:

First hand:
Dealt: Ad, 5h, As, 4s.
Flop: 7s, 6s, Jc
Turn: 6d
River: 9c

As I count it, on the river,
Option 1: As, 4s, 6s, 7s--flush draw: any spade (9 outs)
Option 2: 4s, 5h, 6s, 7s--open end straight draw (8 outs, minus 2 spades already counted=6 outs)
Option 3: Ad, As, 6d, 6s--full house draw (4 outs)
Option 4: 7-6-4-A--any 2, 3, or 5 for low (11 outs to tie, minus the 3's, and minus the spades--5 more outs--at WORST)

The eventual winning hand was a nine-high straight with no low qualified. I had 24 outs at a full table to a guarantee of at least HALF the pot. 24 outs out of 41 unseen cards. That is obscene.

Best thing is that the 5 bricks up my opponent and he doesn't even qualify a low, let alone a straight. Plus, looking again at his hole cards, he was drawing completely dead for the low. Any 2,3, or 5 gives me a nut low.

Three hands before, I missed a high where I flopped a 4-flush, and my other cards both paired. 9 outs for the flush, 4 for the full house. Naturally, trip 2's won the high for the hand...

In the last two days, I've flopped 4-flushes 9 times at O8B. I've hit ZERO. I've flopped flushes twice. My king-high lost to a boat made on the river, and my 9 high (yes, nine-high) actually held up.

The casino trip is Saturday. This shitty luck had better quit by then, or I may be living on the street.

Again, I channel the National Heads-Up Poker Champion:

If it wasn't for luck, I'd win every hand...
--Phil Hellmuth