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“It’s not like poker, where you can build to a straight flush or something. It’s like throwing dice.”

After the flop — the first three communal cards — Adelstein had a straight flush draw, a hand with a lot of potential to win.

The agency official compared the very late applications that got funding to a “perfect straight flush” — a wildly unlikely jackpot.

But it remains important to understand that the 2016 election was a fluke, the equivalent of Trump turning a bad hand into a straight flush on the last card in the river.

He told the BBC that he reconciles the teachings of his faith with the adrenaline of a straight flush “with great difficulty”.