Posted Tue Jun 28, 2005 4:36 am GMT by Silhouette
I'm playing online this morning and I catch four pocket pairs in a row.
2's, Q's, 7's, then 5's.
I folded the 2's, folded Q's on the turn to big betting and A's overcards, won a decent pot on the 7's then won the blinds w/ a small preflop raise with the prestos.
Since this is an odds forum: What're the odds?
Edit: As I'm typing this, I was just dealt Pocket 9's on Royal Vegas. Heh. (I'm considering reposting for the same effect..)
Edit 2: After that last edit, I was just dealt pocket 10's.. this is crazy.
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Posted Tue Jun 28, 2005 7:21 am GMT by Tadzio
I believe the odds to get 4 pocket pairs in a row are 1 in 2,385,443,281. Too bad you didn't make more money off it. If you're actually claiming that you've just got 6 pocket pairs in a row, and my math is right, the odds for that is 1 in 116,507,435,287,321.
Whether you had 4 pocket pairs in a row or the more impressive 6 pocket pairs in a row, you should sprint to the nearest convenience store and buy a lottery ticket. 
Posted Tue Jun 28, 2005 7:57 am GMT by Magra
I got something for you. At a home game, was catching nothing all day. Within the last hour, this was my hands...
1-pocket aces
2-pocket kings
3-pocket queens
4-junk
5-pocket 10s
6 pocket aces
7-junk
8-junk
9-pocket 6's
To top it off, of those 6 pocket pairs, 4 of them made sets! I made my chip stack go from 18 bucks to about 34 bucks.
Posted Tue Jun 28, 2005 9:29 am GMT by Loonbat
Any pocket pair has about a 1 in 16 chance of occurring (a specific pocket pair is just under 0.5%). SO, the rough odds of getting "x" pocket pairs is a row is (1/16) ^ x.
Posted Tue Jun 28, 2005 4:38 pm GMT by Tadzio
Yup, I was doing odds for specific pocket pairs which occur once every 221 hands. My bad. I'm pretty sure any pocket pair is 1 in 17, though. Making the odds of 4 pocket pairs in a row 1 in 83,521, which is "only" 4 times more difficult than flopping four of a kind. Good catch, Loon.
Posted Wed Jun 29, 2005 1:29 am GMT by Silhouette
I caught the four in a row at a different table, but as I was posting it I caught two in a row. I just thought it was ironic that as I'm typing about it, it happened again.. Heh
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