Gut shot, gutshot
In poker, the straight is a high ranked hand where the player has a sequential hand of five consecutive cards. The gut shot is another name for an inside straight draw where the player has four out of the five hands required to make a straight, with more community cards to come, while the only remaining card require to complete the straight is the one of the middle cards.
For e.g. In Texas Hold’em poker, a player receives the hand 4-6. Then at the flop, the three cards to surface are 3-J-7. This gives the player a straight draw with a 3-4-‘x’-6-7 hand and with the turn and flop still to come. The ‘x’ card or 5 card is one of the middle cards and thus, the hand is known as a gut shot, referring to the insides of a player or person.
It is not necessary for the player to draw for the exact center or middle card of the sequence for it to be called a gutshot. A sequence like 4-x-6-7-8 or 9-T-J-x-K is also known as a gutshot where 5 and Q are the missing cards but are not the middle cards in the sequence. As long as the cards that are being drawn for, are not the ranks required at the extreme ends of the straight, it is known as a gutshot or belly buster draw.
The probability of catching a gutshot is half of that of catching an outside straight draw.
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