Thread: Odds of this?
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Old 10-08-2007, 11:26 AM
franknagaijr franknagaijr is offline
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Default Re: Odds of this?

You have Axxx, so there are 48 unknown cards in the deck. There are 3 aces in play. For any given player, there are
c(48,4) combinations available to them.
There are 1 *45 ways to get three aces.

There are 3 ways to get two aces * c(45,2) ways the other two cards can come.

Multiply this times the number of hands being dealt to figure out the odds.

I came up with a 1.55% chance of any given player getting this, multiplied by 8 for about a 12.4% chance of somebody getting two aces.
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