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muckyouraces
08-20-2005, 04:08 PM
does anyone know what the odds are of getting dealt pocket KK vs. AA in a 9 handed game. It seems like I get KK vs. AA at least once a day. This seems pretty unusual. How do you calculate or get that information? thanks
JonPKibble
08-20-2005, 04:13 PM
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does anyone know what the odds are of getting dealt pocket KK vs. AA in a 9 handed game. It seems like I get KK vs. AA at least once a day. This seems pretty unusual. How do you calculate or get that information? thanks

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How many hands are you playing per day? This sounds like you're either playing quite a bit, or getting quite unlucky.

The odds of getting KK is 220 to 1. The odds of any individual opponent getting them is the same. So the odds of at least 1 of 8 of your opponents getting AA is at least 27.5 to 1.

So when you get KK, the odds you're up against AA is about 27.5 to 1 against 8 opponents. The odds of the situation occuring (you getting dealt KK and being up against AA) would be about 6050 to 1 if my numbers are right (which they may very well not be).
08-20-2005, 04:57 PM
Yesterday I had a threeway all-in with AA, KK and AK (I had the AA obviously /images/graemlins/wink.gif )
BruceZ
08-20-2005, 06:02 PM
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does anyone know what the odds are of getting dealt pocket KK vs. AA in a 9 handed game. It seems like I get KK vs. AA at least once a day. This seems pretty unusual. How do you calculate or get that information? thanks

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Response (http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showthreaded.php?Cat=&Number=3194487&page=0&view=e xpanded&sb=5&o=14&fpart=1#Post3194443) on probability forum.
08-21-2005, 01:10 PM
22560/1
KneeCo
08-21-2005, 07:41 PM
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Yesterday I had a threeway all-in with AA, KK and AK (I had the AA obviously /images/graemlins/wink.gif )

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Call me jaded, but I think Aces holding up is never obvious.
08-21-2005, 09:30 PM
This actually happened to me last night, but I would say the odds are pretty low.
I had AA vs. KK and it actually held up. Many times my pocket aces don't hold up though.
GMan42
08-21-2005, 11:50 PM
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Yesterday I had a threeway

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Lucky bastard. I'm still trying to talk my wife into this.