[ohnonotthat]

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But the trouble with calculations like this is any hand is wildly unlikely after it is dealt. I admit this is an unusual hand, but it's not as unusual as the numbers seem to indicate. If you watch a few thousand poker hands, you will see one with four players with strong hands and an innocent looking board.

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Aaron,

Allow me, strictly for the sake of illuminating the OP, to point out the hair in the egg.

Any hand is [sic] "WILDLY unlikely after it's been dealt out" is an indisbutably true statement, as is . . .

ALL hands are EQUALLY [wildly] unlikely after they've been dealt out.

I'll bet we all remember the last time we saw all 5 parts to a Royal ON BOARD.

Quick - - -

Who remembers the last time they saw a final board of:

Kc Ts 8h 6d 3c ?



Nobody ?



Amazing - especially since the exact hand I asked about is four times less likely to show than a Royal. (There are 4 ways to make a Royal but this hand is distinct).