Chances of only ever getting 72o

[helter skelter]

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Are we up to 16.5 billion already?

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Good point. If we use a more reasonable estimate that maybe 100 million persons have ever played holdem, there is about a 0.6% chance that it has happened. But I think 5 hands is a low tolerance. Most would at least keep playing until the blinds come around before they quit for good.

[mykey1961]

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Are we up to 16.5 billion already?

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Good point. If we use a more reasonable estimate that maybe 100 million persons have ever played holdem, there is about a 0.6% chance that it has happened. But I think 5 hands is a low tolerance. Most would at least keep playing until the blinds come around before they quit for good.

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If everyone in the world played five hands of hold'em, by random luck, one person would get 72o five times in a row.

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I was questioning the "everyone in the world", not the number of people that have played holdem.

1/((12/1326)^5) = 16,474,467,659.40625

[Butcho22]

I've always wondered who has been dealt pocket aces the most times in a row in the history of the world, and how many times they were dealt it.

[helter skelter]

That might be tough to answer for a multitabler. Say he's playing 10 tables and he notices that at 5 of them he has been dealt a pair of AA. He would have to know the precise time that each one was dealt.

[99killed]

just bad luck.

[Copernicus]

can i play at your table? forever?

[Sevenfold]

If you make the numbers (trials) big enough, everything happens.

Including one player getting 27o every hand he plays for a lifetime.

AND him winning every one of those hands