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Rainbow

The term rainbow is used to describe a board in which all the cards are of diferent suits and therefore no flush can possibly be made. (In the case of a five card board, no more than 2 suited cards.)

Example

Queen of HeartsAce of ClubsNine of Diamonds
A rainbow flop

The above flop can be referred to as Q-A-9, rainbow.

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