--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, coachvee@... wrote:
>He was playing 50-cent DDB when he held three cards to a clubs royal >and hit it for $2,000. After getting his hand pay, on the VERY NEXT >hand, he held a queen of spades and got another royal!!
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> 1) Is it possible to compute the odds of this once-in-a-lifetime >happening?
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If you ask the question "What are the chances that my next two hands will be royals then it would be 649,740 X 649,740 = 422,162,067,600.
If you hit a royal then ask the question "What are the chances that my next hand will be a royal then the answer is 649,740.
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