Re: An amusing string of hands
 

You acknoledge the fact that there are plenty of non interesting very rare things that could happen, but I think you are forgetting that there are BILLIONS of interesting rare things that could happen also. If any one of these things would of happend to him, he would have come here and posted. Therefore what has happend does not seem all that unlikely. For example, he might have posted here if...
1. He got pocket aces 3 times in a row
2. He got pocket aces every other time, 3 times in a row
3. He got 23, then 45, then 67, then 89
4. He got all clubs for 5 hands.

And so on. The probability of each of these things happening is close to 0, but when you add them all up, it becomes some significant number, and you can be sure that at least a few of these "almost impossible" events will happen.