[Buzz]

"no, it should be the same. think about it this way: split your hand into the good 3 cards and the bad 2.”

Crock - That gets you to a pretty good approximation in this case, to within about two per cent, or so, of the true ratio, I think, but not exactly the same.

When, (counting down from aces), you get to counting the number of possible three-card-straight-flushes made by 9h8h7h in five card hands, you can see that JhTh9h8h7h and Th9h8h7hX must have already been counted.

Meanwhile, 9s9h9d9c2c contains six three-card-trip-nine hands - but I think maybe you only want to count this hand as one three-card-hand with trip nines.

If you take these duplications into account, I think you still end up with more possible trip hands than possible straight flush hands, but not quite in the ratio of 52 to 48. (I’d guess more like 51.5 to 48.5 - something like that - just a guess).

Buzz