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• Catching both the turn and river card to make a drawing hand. For instance, suppose you have A♠-7 ♠The flop comes A♦-6 ♣-4♠. You bet and are called. The turn is the T♠, which everybody checks, and then the river is the J ♠. You've made a "backdoor" nut flush. See also "runner."

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