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A point about probability

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Huntard
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08-22-2009 6:05 PM 		Reply to: Message 58 by lyx2no
08-22-2009 5:53 PM

Re: Poker
That's the beauty of it. The odds of RR an AP getting those hand were exactly the same odds as the other two getting the hands that they got.
Exactly, any combination of five cards is just as likely as any other. It's the significance that we assign to a particular combination that makes the occurrence so "special".
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