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Old 10-29-2004, 08:42 AM
pzhon pzhon is offline
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Default Re: Aces vs. Joker

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40 hands isn't exactly note-worthy.

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Yes it is, if the result is 31-9. It is common to tell people they need more data just to get rid of them, but it's not correct here.

The one-tailed significance level is 0.034%, i.e., if it's a toss-up, Joker-2 would win that much or more about one time in 3000. This is a highly significant result.
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Old 10-29-2004, 09:30 AM
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Default Re: Aces vs. Joker

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just dealt out 40 hands real quick.
Joker hand won 31-9.


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To add to this, I dealt out 36 hands, 18 suited and 18 unsuited. Joker-2 won 27-9. These were the actual hands made, with the hands won by AA starred:

flush vs. pair
quads vs. 2 pair
3oak vs. 2 pair
straight vs. 3oak
straight vs. pair
*pair vs. pair
flush vs. 2 pair
*3oak vs. full house
3oak vs. two pair
full house vs. 2 pair
flush vs. straight
3oak vs. 2 pair
3oak vs. pair
flush vs. pair
*pair vs. pair
3oak vs. 2 pair
3oak vs. 2 pair
*straight vs. quads
3oak vs. pair
3oak vs. 2 pair
straight vs. pair
full house vs. 2 pair
*pair vs. pair
straight vs. pair
3oak vs. 2 pair
*3oak vs. full house
*3oak vs. 3oak
3oak vs. 2 pair
3oak vs. pair
quads vs. 2 pair
*pair vs. pair
3oak vs. 2 pair
full house vs. 2 pair
*pair vs. 3oak
full house vs. 2 pair
straight vs. pair

I was surprised by how frequently Joker-2 made a straight or a flush, 10 times out of 36.

Combining the two sets of data gives Joker-2 58 wins out of 76, 76.3%. A 95% confidence interval is 65.1%-85.4%. From 76 hands, we don't have a very tight estimate on how frequently Joker-2 beats AA, but we can conclude that it wins much more than 50%.

I'm not sure I want to test this myself, but perhaps just a joker would beat AA.
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Old 10-29-2004, 11:54 AM
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Default Re: Aces vs. Joker

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18 suited and 18 unsuited

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was anyone else confused by this? if you have a joker then your hand is always suited.
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Old 10-29-2004, 12:19 PM
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Default Re: Aces vs. Joker

I took "suited" to mean the 2 was the same suit as one of the aces.
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