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Roy looked at the straight flush, the same one as before except in hearts. “Sometimes you are about the luckiest fellow I ever met.” The others at the table agreed. That particular run of “luck” was talked about for several months. The odds against two successive straight flushes of the same denomination held by the same person in a six-handed card game are about 5,780,000 to one. How did it happen? I don’t know. How did I know? Very simply, a sureness. I suspect a lot of high rollers have made a lot of money on such dealings and lost also because the “knowing” was not right.