In fact, if this player makes either of their possible straights, they will have the nut straight and have an unbeatable hand.

In this case, either a king or a nine, of any suit, would complete a straight. It is sometimes called a 'double inside straight draw' or 'double gutshot', but the more colorful 'double bellybuster' has become the more popular term. This could conceivably give someone else a flush, so only three of the available tens are considered pure outs.Ī double bellybuster is a hand in which a player simultaneously has two separate gutshot straight draws but does not have an open-ended straight draw. For example, if you held 98 in a Holdem game. An open end straight draw is if you are on a draw and four of the cards you are using are consecutive in rank. A double gutshot gives similar odds as an open end straight and is basically considered the same thing, but it is different. There are four tens unseen, so the player has four outs.Ĭlose observers might note, however, that one of the possible tens (the ten of clubs) would cause the board to contain three clubs. Double Gutshot - Two inside straight draws on any given hand. The player now needs a ten of any suit to make their gutshot straight. By definition, this is at best a four-out draw (there might be fewer outs if one or more of the necessary cards is already dead).įor example, in a game of Hold 'em the player holds: Gutshot, bellybuster and inside straight draw are all terms used to describe a hand in which the player is drawing at a single card rank to make a straight.