[BruceZ]

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Hi Bruce - I didn't solve it for the specific example, but for the general case when hero has trips with one card higher and one card lower.

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I understand. I didn't just solve it just for the example either, I solved it for the question which I believe was asked, which is for any 3-of-a-kind where the other 2 cards are one RANK above and one RANK below. While the words RANK were not present in the problem statement, I am pretty sure that is what was intended as I simply don't believe that your interpretation, which is "the other two cards consist of one higher and one lower card", is correctly expressed in English by the words "the other two cards are one above and one below". Gene Fish, please tell us which interpretation you intended.