We have been talking about bad beats and going on tilt, sometimes after a bad beat you will hear the term “runner-runner” to describe what happened in the hand. The term refers to a situation where the winning hand needed both the turn and the river cards to win the hand. For example:

One player holds KK and the other has 98s. The flop is 24Q. The kings lead by a wide margin but the turn is a J giving the 98 a gutshot straight draw, a ten will complete the straight (QJ1098) when the 10 hits the river we say: the straight went “runner-runner” for the win. This happens with flushes and straights and even sometimes with a full house, two pair or trips. It is almost always a bad beat as getting two consecutive cards to win a hand has got to be something of a draw-out.

Sometimes the player who loses the hand to the runner-runner will say they got run down and we think they would be right about that.

-This is Beginner’s Poker Blog Post #134

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