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Old 11-16-2005, 10:36 AM
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Default Re: trips flops twice in a row

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only a man with his head up his mathematical, well, ahem, would, on seeing a trillion to one event, shrug and equate it with the probability of finding two legs on a biped.

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Go watch a roulette wheel for 20 minutes.

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here's one you could maybe answer: what are the odds of being dealt KK twice in succession, and being beaten by AA twice in that succession?

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Unless there's an error in my thinking:

[C(4,2)/C(52,2) * [9 * 6/C(50,2) - C(9,2)/C(50,4)] * .819461] ^ 2

~.00000265% or about 37,696,253.7 to 1.
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