THE SHOWDOWN
The pre-flop raiser had made two pair on the river. He had K 
9 .
The other player in the showdown had a straight. Our hero won the pot with his flush.
SUMMARY
I think this hand serves as a classic example of the kinds of mistakes that players make when they tend to always think of Holdem as a confrontation between the best and a draw.
They believe that adding more callers increases the chances that the best hand is a very high hand.
The reality is that adding more callers just serves to increase the odds you’re getting; enough so that it’s often good enough just to have the best hand, particularly when your hand has many outs.
In a loose poker game, particularly a game that’s very loose and very aggressive, players tend to have some weak hands, and they often tend to overplay those weak hands.
That’s where the profit comes from in these games.
Having a lot of callers who tend to play weak hands does not increase the likelihood that the best hand is a very good hand.
Just the opposite: it increase the odds that a better-than-average, not top, hand will get action from weak hands.
To get that action, you have to be prepared to take some risk. It is a risk to reraise on the river with a flush that might not be the best flush.
It is a risk to raise on a draw to a hand that might not be the best hand, but there is a very high payoff available to those willing to take those risks in the right kind of game conditions.
In a loose or very loose game that’s also aggressive or very aggressive, it’s important to take control, play your poker hands aggressively.
That also means raising when you make a flush.
If you aren’t willing to take the risk associated with taking control in these kinds of games, then it might just be that these kinds of games aren’t for you.
