In a message dated 6/11/2007 12:50:52 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
b.glazer@att.net writes:
Pocket Aces come once in 221 hands, and one of my opponents observed that it
must be 4,000 to one against getting them twice in a row -- I quickly
corrected his decimal point; it's actually almost 49,000 to 1! I don't know how to
calculate the odds of it happening three times in ten hands (used to know
how to do that, but I've lost that skill). It's certainly going to be far
less than the next two VP hands being quads followed by a straight flush.
In video poker, like Bob pointed out, it's not important to know this stuff
but in Hold'em we as crossovers can sound very intimidating to just Hold'em
players.
Even the top pro Hold'em folks negate video poker as "sitting at a machine"
and can't grasp the concept of perfectionism yet ignoring small penalty stuff.
JT
JT
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