Some Real Bad Beats
 

Odds of getting the ultimate bad beat (these stats are based on each event occurring sometime during your life):

<u>Death from:</u>
Heart attack: 1/5
Cancer: 1/7
Injury (fall, etc.): 1/22
Violence (assault, war, etc.): 7/50 for males, 7/100 for females
Car crash: 1/84
Disease: 1/500
Asteroid/comet striking the Earth that is large enough to cause global disaster: 1/1000
Natural forces (heat, fire, storms, quakes, etc.): 1/3500
Asteroid/comet striking the Earth that is large enough to cause massive global mortality and threaten civilization: 1/5,000
Air travel accident: 1/20,000
Tsunami: 1/50,000
Lightening strike: 1/84,000
Shark Attack: 1/100,000

Re: Some Real Bad Beats
 

Three words: Poker Tax Laws.

Re: Some Real Bad Beats
 

Look up some interesting stuff and post the chances of dying from it.

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Looks like I need to cancel my travel insurance and get comet insurance.

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Chances of dying from a bee sting: 1:15000000

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43% of all statistics are made up.

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Asteroid/comet striking the Earth that is large enough to cause global disaster: 1/1000

this stat alone proves that these are all made up

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Asteroid/comet striking the Earth that is large enough to cause global disaster: 1/1000

this stat alone proves that these are all made up

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According to NASA: "The asteroids capable of causing a global disaster if they hit the Earth are extremely rare. They probably would need to be about a kilometer or more in diameter. Such bodies impact the Earth only once every 100,000 years on average."

I assumed a human lives 100 years to make it simple.

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Asteroid/comet striking the Earth that is large enough to cause global disaster: 1/1000

this stat alone proves that these are all made up

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According to NASA: "The asteroids capable of causing a global disaster if they hit the Earth are extremely rare. They probably would need to be about a kilometer or more in diameter. Such bodies impact the Earth only once every 100,000 years on average."

I assumed a human lives 100 years to make it simple.

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Re: Some Real Bad Beats
 

so you are saying that if it does hit within our lifetime (1/1000 chance of that happening), then 100% of the time every single person will die from it...