Strange Occurences

[iash]

Was playing in a weekly Hold 'em game last Wednesday, and the following 3 highly improbable hands occured. Anyone care to guess which situation is more of a rarity? Anyone care to do the calculations (after making your guess, of course)? /images/graemlins/grin.gif

1) 10 10 vs A 3 (both all in)...2 deuces flop. Then a
deuce on the turn and a deuce on the river. 4 of a
kind on the board. A 3 wins with four of a kind and an Ace
kicker.

2) I don't remember the specifics on this one...but 3
players, a lot of money in the pot...turns out all
three guys had AQ offsuit. WOW.

3) Hands don't matter on this one...the flop came
5 6 7 the turn was 8 the river was 9

Straight on the board, in order - 5 6 7 8 9.

How bizarre. And all in one 5 hour session of playing. Just thought I'd share.

Dave

[daryn]

are you new to poker? if you keep playing often enough things like a 4 card straight on the board and even two players both holding AA will not seem so amazing.

[iash]

I've seen both of the hands you are speaking of. However, three players with the same hand and a 5 card straight on the board, in order is quite a rarity, I think. Not to mention all in the same night...

[dogsballs]

I don't think the odds'll be as outlandish as you think.

There's only 13 ranks of cards in a deck, with 4 of each. People seem to forget that there's only those 52 cards in a deck when they start saying such and such sequence was lucky/outrageously rare/unlucky/frikkin' cheatin' mofo's or, my personal favourite...astronomical.


edit: Another way of looking at it: What do you think the odds are of any sequence of cards that you would consider strange occurring during an evening of poker.

If you play a good solid session, then it's going to start getting pretty close to one. It'd be strange if we didn't see such sequences.

[Lost Wages]

You think that's weird. The other day I was playing and on my first orbit I was dealt the following 10 hands in order:

5 /images/graemlins/club.gif2 /images/graemlins/spade.gif
Q /images/graemlins/heart.gif4 /images/graemlins/heart.gif
A /images/graemlins/diamond.gif2 /images/graemlins/spade.gif
7 /images/graemlins/spade.gif7 /images/graemlins/heart.gif
T /images/graemlins/club.gif2 /images/graemlins/club.gif
6 /images/graemlins/heart.gif4 /images/graemlins/spade.gif
7 /images/graemlins/diamond.gif3 /images/graemlins/diamond.gif
K /images/graemlins/heart.gifJ /images/graemlins/spade.gif
9 /images/graemlins/heart.gif7 /images/graemlins/heart.gif
Q /images/graemlins/club.gif9 /images/graemlins/diamond.gif

The probability of that happening is 0.0000000000000000000000000000000595 .

Lost Wages

[sthief09]

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The probability of that happening is 0.0000000000000000000000000000000595 .

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wow online poker must be rigged

[BigBluffer]

I saw this a couple of days ago:

Flop was J J J
Turn was J
River was inconsequential

Two players at showdown:
Player 1: A A
Player 2: A A

I've played my fair share of poker, but that's about the weirdest hand I've seen so far.