Re: Imaginary poker game probability question
This is off the top of my head, so if I am wrong - sorry.
How about figuring out the total number of possible hands that can be dealt w/ 9 cards (52C9) to start. Now we need to figure out how manu of those hands contain straights.
if we know how many possible 5 card straights there are (this should be easy to calculate or look up on the internet). For each straight, we have (52-5)C4 possible ways of making the straight. We then multiply this by the number of possible five card straights. Finally divide this by the number of 9 card hands that we first calculated.
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