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Old 07-04-2007, 04:13 PM
BritNewbie BritNewbie is offline
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Default Re: getting a specific hand X times in Y hands

Doh!

Yes, you're right, of course.
Thank You, Bruce.
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Old 07-04-2007, 04:32 PM
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Default Re: getting a specific hand X times in Y hands

If you want a less arduous method, you can use a Poisson approximation.

Then you only need p (the probability of making the hand) and y (the number of hands) and you can instantly calculate the (approximate) probability of getting the hand x times.

You can read about it here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson_distribution

By the way, the main formula here is

(e^(-yp))((yp)^x)/x!

which can be calculated relatively quickly for most x.
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