If you're reading this guide, you're likely an achievement completionist who has gotten 19 out of 20 achievements and is struggling to pick up that final elusive Straight Flush. Unfortunately, the odds of getting a Straight Flush on any given 7-card hand are 1 in 3,215. Maybe you've already spent countless hours and gotten nowhere. Personally, I started trying for the achievement over a year ago and got very frustrated with the luck-based aspect of the whole thing.

Here you can see the odds of getting a straight flush against the # of hands you need to play:

Boiled down to its simplest form, all you really need to do is blindly play every hand over and over, until you get lucky. So can you automate this? Yes. AutoHotkey is a free automation tool that can be used to click 'call/check' for you, skip the character dialogues for you, and restart tournaments for you.

Well, I guess the answer to that question is for you to decide. Personally, I feel like using an achivement unlocking tool like SAM is blatantly 'cheating'. Automating a luck-based repetitive task that otherwise has no challenge whatsoever is more of a grey area - and the challenge of successfully scripting a way to solve it is an achievement in itself. However, if you don't feel that this method is 'legitimate', then that's fine too.

If you'd like to try to automate the process, here's what you do:

• Start the game in windowed mode and begin a tournament.
  
• In settings, set the dialogue to minimum.
  
• If you have not collected all of the game items from the other players, you may want to do so first. The script is not currently coded to handle them. After playing for an item, a dialogue box will appear that needs to be clicked away.
  
• Install AutoHotkey http://www.autohotkey.com/
  
• Save the following script to a file 'poker.ahk' on your desktop:
  
  ; This script will keep playing Poker Night at the Inventory SetDefaultMouseSpeed,0 WinWaitActive Poker Night at the Inventory Run() ; To stop the application at any time, simply press the Escape button Escape::ExitApp ;Run the whole application indefinitely Run() { while true { ClickCall() SkipDialogue() DealNewGame() Sleep,500 } } ClickCall() { Click,182,451 } SkipDialogue() { Click, right, 182, 451 } DealNewGame() { Click,473,453 }
• Double-click the 'poker.ahk' file to load the script, and switch back to the game. The script should start running automatically.
  
• Hit 'escape' to exit the script at any time.
  
• If for some reason, the mouse-clicks are not calibrated properly for your window, use the program AU3_Spy.exe that came with AutoHotkey to identify the proper coordinates for the script.
  
• Leave the program running to continuously play poker and earn the Straight Flush achievement (or any of the others) while you watch. Or sleep. Or have dinner. Etc.
  
• Note that even using this technique, which will likely play a hand in 40-70 seconds, it may still take a number of DAYS or WEEKS to see a straight flush. It all depends how generous the random number generator wants to be with you. Good luck!