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Old 12-18-2004, 02:52 PM
DrewOnTilt DrewOnTilt is offline
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Default reverse bad beat - just how big of a longshot did I hit?

I'm curious as to how big of a suckout I pulled on this hand.

I held 9 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]T [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]
Flop was 8 [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]7 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]7 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]

The suckout victim held 8 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]8 [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] for a flopped eights full over sevens. I caught runner runner nines to win the pot with nines full [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

I figure that to win this pot, I had to catch one of the following:
runner runner 9s
runner runner 10s
runner runner 8 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]6 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]
runner runner 8 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]J [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]

Did I miss anything on what I needed to catch? And the odds of this happening were what - one in 1500 or so?
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Old 12-18-2004, 03:30 PM
gaming_mouse gaming_mouse is offline
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Default Re: reverse bad beat - just how big of a longshot did I hit?

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I figure that to win this pot, I had to catch one of the following:
runner runner 9s
runner runner 10s
runner runner 8 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]6 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]
runner runner 8 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]J [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]

Did I miss anything on what I needed to catch? And the odds of this happening were what - one in 1500 or so?

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Not even close -- it's much lower.

You got all the possibilities tho. We note that since they're mutually exclusive, we can calculate the individual probabilities and add them together. 45 cards are left.

2 9's: (3/45)*(2/44)
2 10's: same
each str8 flush: (2/45)*(1/45)

2*(3/45)*(2/44) + 2*(2/45)*(1/45) = .008

About 1 in 125
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Old 12-19-2004, 05:52 AM
SpaceAce SpaceAce is offline
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Default Re: reverse bad beat - just how big of a longshot did I hit?

You guys are both forgetting running sevens which would give the hero four sevens with a ten kicker.

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Old 12-19-2004, 06:09 AM
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You guys are both forgetting running sevens which would give the hero four sevens with a ten kicker.

SpaceAce

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Nice catch.

gm
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Old 12-19-2004, 09:14 AM
Spladle Master Spladle Master is offline
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Default Re: reverse bad beat - just how big of a longshot did I hit?

You are a 109:1 dog on the flop.
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Old 12-19-2004, 12:16 PM
DrewOnTilt DrewOnTilt is offline
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Default Re: reverse bad beat - just how big of a longshot did I hit?

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You are a 109:1 dog on the flop.

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YES! My odds keep improving with each post. Next time I am in this situation in my $5-$10 game and the pot is $1090 after the flop, I'll remember that [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
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Old 12-20-2004, 02:44 AM
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Default Re: reverse bad beat - just how big of a longshot did I hit?

Perfect perfect is 989:1 so 1500:1 is not possible.
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