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Strange Occurences
Was playing in a weekly Hold 'em game last Wednesday, and the following 3 highly improbable hands occured. Anyone care to guess which situation is more of a rarity? Anyone care to do the calculations (after making your guess, of course)? [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
1) 10 10 vs A 3 (both all in)...2 deuces flop. Then a deuce on the turn and a deuce on the river. 4 of a kind on the board. A 3 wins with four of a kind and an Ace kicker. 2) I don't remember the specifics on this one...but 3 players, a lot of money in the pot...turns out all three guys had AQ offsuit. WOW. 3) Hands don't matter on this one...the flop came 5 6 7 the turn was 8 the river was 9 Straight on the board, in order - 5 6 7 8 9. How bizarre. And all in one 5 hour session of playing. Just thought I'd share. Dave |
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Re: Strange Occurences
are you new to poker? if you keep playing often enough things like a 4 card straight on the board and even two players both holding AA will not seem so amazing.
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Re: Strange Occurences
I've seen both of the hands you are speaking of. However, three players with the same hand and a 5 card straight on the board, in order is quite a rarity, I think. Not to mention all in the same night...
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Re: Strange Occurences
I don't think the odds'll be as outlandish as you think.
There's only 13 ranks of cards in a deck, with 4 of each. People seem to forget that there's only those 52 cards in a deck when they start saying such and such sequence was lucky/outrageously rare/unlucky/frikkin' cheatin' mofo's or, my personal favourite...astronomical. edit: Another way of looking at it: What do you think the odds are of any sequence of cards that you would consider strange occurring during an evening of poker. If you play a good solid session, then it's going to start getting pretty close to one. It'd be strange if we didn't see such sequences. |
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Re: Strange Occurences
You think that's weird. The other day I was playing and on my first orbit I was dealt the following 10 hands in order:
5 [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]2 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] Q [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]4 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] A [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]2 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] 7 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]7 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] T [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]2 [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] 6 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]4 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] 7 [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]3 [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] K [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]J [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] 9 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]7 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] Q [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]9 [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] The probability of that happening is 0.0000000000000000000000000000000595 . Lost Wages |
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Re: Strange Occurences
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The probability of that happening is 0.0000000000000000000000000000000595 . [/ QUOTE ] wow online poker must be rigged |
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Re: Strange Occurences
I saw this a couple of days ago:
Flop was J J J Turn was J River was inconsequential Two players at showdown: Player 1: A A Player 2: A A I've played my fair share of poker, but that's about the weirdest hand I've seen so far. |
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