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Old 11-20-2006, 09:34 PM
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Default Hmmmmmmmmmmm (aka PokerStars is Ri*$%@#!!)

Since moving to PokerStars I've played...

104,891 hands

So, I guess I'd expect to have 477 of each pair and a 6,198 total pairs...



Is this within the realm of reasonable expectation?

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Old 11-20-2006, 09:35 PM
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Default Re: Hmmmmmmmmmmm (aka PokerStars is Ri*$%@#!!)

brag?
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Old 11-20-2006, 09:35 PM
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Play 33-55 better.
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Old 11-20-2006, 09:42 PM
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It's obviously rigged. You have never gotten pocket twos!
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Old 11-20-2006, 09:43 PM
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but how much did you lose?
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Old 11-20-2006, 09:48 PM
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wow, kinda scary. wonder if the stat guys can put the likelihood of this in context.
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Old 11-20-2006, 09:49 PM
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Default Re: Hmmmmmmmmmmm (aka PokerStars is Ri*$%@#!!)

i flipped a coin 1000 times yesterday and only got 450 heads. is this possible/!??!?!?!
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Old 11-20-2006, 10:01 PM
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i flipped a coin 1000 times yesterday and only got 450 heads. is this possible/!??!?!?!

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i did the same thing, i got 502 heads. go figure.
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Old 11-21-2006, 12:10 AM
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Is this within the realm of reasonable expectation?

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I did the math real quick so now you get to see what a moron I am. I think you're right in there. Binomial distribution information is here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial_distribution

On pairs, you have a 1/17 chance of making a pair (3 cards left) so you should expect 6170 pairs. Standard dev is square root of (1/17)*(16/17)*104891 or around 70. And it looks like you're within a half a standard dev. You can do the calculations yourself on AA and stuff using that web page. Variance is n*p*(1/p)
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Old 11-21-2006, 12:16 AM
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Whoops I just realized that you're saying you only made 5852 pairs, which is 4 standard devs away. No, that's pretty unlikely. But its close enough that you should double-check my numbers. Are you sure that there's not some kind of filtering going on with these numbers? Could you be missing any hands at all, even walks from the blinds or something?
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