6 Responses to “What are the odds?”

1. #  KajaPoker 10:37 p.m.

   FTP RNG is demented. I usually run 4 SNGs at once and I can't count how many of the same hands I get at the same time. And what's worse, I see the same flops on different screens. And even worse my hands hit flops on other tables all the time. I termed this OTT - Other Table Tilt.  

2. #  Michael Albert 10:47 p.m.

   Bah ... sometimes it's such a pain being the math geek. There are
   
   52*51/2 = 1326
   
   different poker hands. So, the chance of being dealt three identical hands from three separate decks (we're not going to think about the fact that we might get multiple opportunities to observe this -- e.g. one hand taking more time than the others etc.) is
   
   1/(1326*1326) = 1/1,758,276
   
   (Your first hand is "free", then the other two have to match it)
   
   The one that always gets me is when I've got say, 64 on one table as I see the flop come 664 on the other.  

3. #  CarmenSinCity 12:26 a.m.

   I agree - it's definitely not random.  

4. #  Mike Maloney 9:06 a.m.

   Ha, nice. Agree with Kaja on the flops on different tables. I constantly flop two pair on other tables with my hole cards.
   
   Reminds me of the day I flopped quads on two different tables at the same time, then about a half hour later had pocket kings at the same time on two different tables. RNG at its finest.  

5. #  SirFWALGMan 12:32 p.m.

   That was the Waffles RNG bug documented in 2.3.1 of FT manual.  

6. #  Anonymous 10:35 p.m.

   Since the flop on one table always complements the hole cards on the other, do you ever find yourself playing, say, 53o when the other table has the hole cards 64o? Of course, that guarantees the flop for your 53o will be 5 7 8....