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06-14-2005, 11:12 PM
|  | Chip and a Chair | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Columbus
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| | | Can't believe I kept any of my money...
Played last night with some friends. Playing six handed my buddy in consecutive hands gets: QQ, KK, KK, 88, QQ, AA. Luckily I didn't get anything to stay in with or I might have lost a bundle. Anyone else see anything like this?  |
06-14-2005, 11:22 PM
| | World Series Final Table | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Chicago
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| | | Re: Can't believe I kept any of my money...
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Originally Posted by shawnb1824 Played last night with some friends. Playing six handed my buddy in consecutive hands gets: QQ, KK, KK, 88, QQ, AA. Luckily I didn't get anything to stay in with or I might have lost a bundle. Anyone else see anything like this? | Watch the dealer very closely next time...sounds like a mechanic  |
06-14-2005, 11:30 PM
| | Chip and a Chair | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Columbus
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| | No, nothing like that. We're all good friends and nobody is close to being a mechanic. Also, we usually rotate the deal. Just a crazy run of cards.  |
06-14-2005, 11:39 PM
|  | ChipTalk.net Article Writer | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Ontario, California
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| | | Re: Can't believe I kept any of my money...
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Originally Posted by ky70 Quote: |
Originally Posted by shawnb1824 Played last night with some friends. Playing six handed my buddy in consecutive hands gets: QQ, KK, KK, 88, QQ, AA. Luckily I didn't get anything to stay in with or I might have lost a bundle. Anyone else see anything like this? | Watch the dealer very closely next time...sounds like a mechanic | Or just some lousy shuffling going on. If this is the case, see this thread for some help: http://www.chiptalk.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1713
The probablility of getting a pocket pair QQ or higher three consecutive times is on the order of 2.5x10^-6, or 1 in 400,000.
Probability of getting PP QQ or higher: 0.01357
Three in a row: 0.01357^3 = 0.00000250 |
06-15-2005, 01:00 AM
|  | World Series Champ | | Join Date: Apr 2005
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| | | A month ago, my buddy Had str8 flush to the Q and I had the bottom end of the str8 flush. I knew him so well that I folded on the turn. Save me a bundle. |
06-15-2005, 09:34 AM
| | In the Money | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Texas
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| | | Last Sat tourney, I had pocket pair the first 5 hands, Pocket aces,(doubled up) went up against pocket queens, and another person said he folded pocket 9's. Then had pocket 3', 9', 6's and then 10's. |
06-15-2005, 11:36 AM
| | ChipTalk.net Article Writer | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Ontario, California
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| | | Probability of getting any pocket pair: 0.05882
Five times in a row: 0.05882^5 = 0.00000070, or 1 in 1,419,857. Still way better than the lottery, though.
Those kinds of odds approach what most people would call miraculous. But as poker players, we know that if it can happen, either we, or somebody else, has seen it already. Kind of changes your perspective on life, IMHO. |
06-15-2005, 11:52 AM
|  | Big Stack | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Killa Kali, Home of the Hustla Age: 33
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| | | last nite my friend pulled a sklansky....
pocket aces 3 times with a pocket 8's inbetween the first and 2nd pocket aces....
we were at a tourny in HP and sho'nuff...he goes from $2500 in chips to almost 30k in a matter of 5 hands....
tlak about riding a rush....
they did say there was a tsunami watch in the cali borders...LOL
free,
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06-15-2005, 12:21 PM
| | ChipTalk.net Article Writer | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Ontario, California
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| | | Wow, now the probabilities are getting really small:
Probability of getting AA (or any particular PP): 0.004525
Probability of getting a non-AA PP: 0.05430
Probability of getting precisely the sequence AA, non-AA PP, AA, AA:
(0.004525)³ × (0.05430) = 5.031E-9, or 1 in 199 million! |
06-15-2005, 03:57 PM
|  | Design Addict | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Location: Location Age: 41
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Originally Posted by Mr Meaner Last Sat tourney, I had pocket pair the first 5 hands, Pocket aces,(doubled up) went up against pocket queens, and another person said he folded pocket 9's. Then had pocket 3', 9', 6's and then 10's. | Hit any sets?
My abnormal series of recent was on UB...
63o, 62o, 62o (same suits), 62o, 62o
UB hates me for some reason 
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