I recently got to thinking. A novice to the world of poker is apt to think that we more experienced players are speaking in a foreign tongue. Some of them see a movie like 21 or something and may go through an entire game chanting things like, “Winner, winner, chicken dinner,” even though that applies far more to Blackjack than it does to poker. Whereas, they might stumble upon this blog, for instance, and have no earthly idea what “runner runner” itself stands for, let alone what a runner runner flush is. So what the heck, I figure they should be enlightened a little bit.

Actually, there are lots of different definitions for what a runner runner hand truly points to, but most of them revolve around pretty much the same thing. Typically, the term refers to a situation in Texas Hold ‘Em or a similar game wherein a player needs certain cards in the Turn and the River in order to make his or her hand. Other terms for this situation are “backdoor” and “perfect perfect.”