--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, coachvee@... wrote:
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>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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I'm really getting a big kick out of being a bonehead. Once again, I can't blame it on drinking. Maybe I have Alzheimer's. The first answer I gave would apply to flopping back to back royals. I must have been still stuck on a previous post. So let's try again.
If you are playing 9/6 Double Double and ask the question "What are the chances that my next two hands will be royals?" the answer is 40,799.3 X 40,799.3 = 1,664,582,880.49
If you hit a royal and then ask the question "What are the chances my next hand will be a royal?" the answer is 40,799.3.
I still chase women. I just can't remember why.
