Re: Identical Random Shuffles?
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Define what your intents and purposes are and what "basically the same" is.
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The intent is to quantify deals in hold'em that are equivalent. My example is a shuffle of the deck that deals out the same and plays exactly the same, like if you are dealt two offsuit connectors and the flop consists of rainbow undercards. Now that I've thought about it, correcting for the different suits by dividing by 4! makes sense. This still gives us many combinations.
I'm sure there are a lot of deals that may be played the same, even though they aren't the exact same cards, but this would be difficult, and therefore, not worth calculating. IMO
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