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Title: What are the odds ?
Post by: Pawprint on August 11, 2013, 11:11:30 PM
Horrible exit hand with 20 mins to go in tonight's GPS Day 1a.

3 way allin.  AA v JJ v AJ on a AJ6 flop.

I'm trying to get my head around the odds of top set vs middle set vs top two pair.

Anyone care to have a go at the numbers ?


Title: Re: What are the odds ?
Post by: The Camel on August 11, 2013, 11:12:47 PM
Horrible exit hand with 20 mins to go in tonight's GPS Day 1a.

3 way allin.  AA v JJ v AJ on a AJ6 flop.

I'm trying to get my head around the odds of top set vs middle set vs top two pair.

Anyone care to have a go at the numbers ?

Remote!

Never actually seen this one.

Only seen three sets on the flop once.


Title: Re: What are the odds ?
Post by: doubleup on August 11, 2013, 11:19:47 PM

In the old days the AJ wuld've mucked and the JJ  tank-called


Title: Re: What are the odds ?
Post by: Ironside on August 12, 2013, 12:53:38 AM
Ok just guessing you didnt have the aa then would of loved to see the aa cracked to a back door flush after that flop


Title: Re: What are the odds ?
Post by: Oxford_HRV on August 12, 2013, 08:40:08 AM
this hurts my brain too much, i'm guessing at 60,000-1



Title: Re: What are the odds ?
Post by: Acidmouse on August 12, 2013, 09:04:22 AM
Horrible exit hand with 20 mins to go in tonight's GPS Day 1a.

3 way allin.  AA v JJ v AJ on a AJ6 flop.

I'm trying to get my head around the odds of top set vs middle set vs top two pair.

Anyone care to have a go at the numbers ?

This is the EXACT hand that happened to me the night before a sky poker tour event in Leeds, my table had all sky players there.

I actually had the AJ and with that flop won, runner runner flush :) I had to be called back to tell me I had won the hand lol.


Title: Re: What are the odds ?
Post by: Pawprint on August 12, 2013, 12:34:04 PM
Right then,

The odds of being dealt a pocket pair is 17:1

I can't quite decide what the calculation should be for the odds of two players being dealt a pocket pair, but have found a calculation for a 6 handed table (this was 7 handed), so am going to use that.

0 players dealt a pair is simply:
(16/17)^6 = 0.6951 for 6-handed
and
(16/17)^9 = 0.5795 for 9-handed

1 player dealt a pair is:
6*(1/17)*(16/17)^5 = 0.2606 for 6-handed
and
9*(1/17)*(16/17)^8 = 0.3296 for 9-handed

So 2 or more people being dealt a pair will roughly be:
1 - 0.6951 - 0.2606 = 0.0443 for 6-handed (1 in every 22.6 deals)
and
1 - 0.5795 - 0.3296 = 0.0909 for 9-handed (1 in every 11.0 deals)



So, the odds of two players getting dealt a pocket pair is 22:1

The odds of a third player then being dealt one each of those pocket pair cards is 564:1 (2/48 x 2/47)

And finally, the odds of the remaining case pocket pair cards being flopped is 15,180:1 (91,080 combinations of 46 cards being flopped, with 6 combinations of the two case cards being flopped)

Which would make the total odds 22 x 564 x 15,180 : 1 or 188,353,440 : 1


Seems a big number.  Have I missed something obvious ?  (Should I be ignoring the first odds, as the probabilty of the second and third part are already based on the first bit having happened ?)


Title: Re: What are the odds ?
Post by: TightEnd on August 12, 2013, 12:55:03 PM
My head hurts Leigh.


Title: Re: What are the odds ?
Post by: redsimon on August 12, 2013, 12:57:25 PM
Fold Jacks pre. Saves a lot of hassle :)


Title: Re: What are the odds ?
Post by: Cf on August 14, 2013, 08:25:58 AM
I usually enjoy calculating odds but I think in this case I'd just go with



Remote!



Title: Re: What are the odds ?
Post by: MintTrav on August 14, 2013, 09:43:50 AM
Should the 2/48 be 4/48, Leigh?


Title: Re: What are the odds ?
Post by: theprawnidentity on August 14, 2013, 10:22:46 AM
As I have a habbit of trying to make maths wayyyyy too simple (and therefore wrong), can we calculate it by saying:

odds of flopping set (-1 out) * odds of flopping set (-1 out) * odds of flopping quads (2 precise cards)

0.06*0.06*0.00102 = 0.000003672

OR

1 in 272,331.2

1 in xxx million sounds right for this exact case of set over set over two pair.


Title: Re: What are the odds ?
Post by: Tal on August 14, 2013, 10:23:11 AM
Should the 2/48 be 4/48, Leigh?

We are saying that we know the exact location in the pack of two aces and two jacks and that our AJ man cannot get any of those four cards. What are the chances that he is dealt one of the remaining aces and one of the remaining jacks?

The odds of him being dealt either one of the remaining aces or one of the remaining jacks in the first card are 4/48.

The odds of him being dealt either one of the remaining aces or one of the remaining jacks in the second card, assuming an ace or a jack has gone (to us or someone else) would be 3/47.

So, the idea of both cards being either an ace or a jack is 4/48 x 3/47

However, that isn't what we want to know.

We want the first card to be an ace and the second to be a jack OR
The first to be a jack and the second to be an ace.

So, that's one of the two aces (2/48) and one of the two jacks (2/47)
OR
One of the two jacks (2/48) and one of the two aces (2/47)

So it's 2(2/48 x 2/47) = 1/282

That's for this one AJ bit.


Title: Re: What are the odds ?
Post by: MintTrav on August 14, 2013, 04:20:29 PM
Should the 2/48 be 4/48, Leigh?

We are saying that we know the exact location in the pack of two aces and two jacks and that our AJ man cannot get any of those four cards. What are the chances that he is dealt one of the remaining aces and one of the remaining jacks?

The odds of him being dealt either one of the remaining aces or one of the remaining jacks in the first card are 4/48.

The odds of him being dealt either one of the remaining aces or one of the remaining jacks in the second card, assuming an ace or a jack has gone (to us or someone else) would be 3/47.

So, the idea of both cards being either an ace or a jack is 4/48 x 3/47

However, that isn't what we want to know.

We want the first card to be an ace and the second to be a jack OR
The first to be a jack and the second to be an ace.

So, that's one of the two aces (2/48) and one of the two jacks (2/47)
OR
One of the two jacks (2/48) and one of the two aces (2/47)

So it's 2(2/48 x 2/47) = 1/282

That's for this one AJ bit.

Yes. Is that different to what I said?


Title: Re: What are the odds ?
Post by: titaniumbean on August 14, 2013, 04:50:09 PM
maths mugs itt


fiddy fiddy brah it happens or it dont!


Title: Re: What are the odds ?
Post by: EvilPie on August 14, 2013, 06:43:18 PM
636763050:1

If i was on my pc I'd show some kind of working.

Seeing as I'm on my phone I won't bother....

Basically you can remove one random card so we're dealing with the remaining 51.

We then need to hit 8 specific cards so 8/51 * 7/50 * 6/49

You get the idea.....

Seems a ridiculously high number but I can't figure how it can any different?





Title: Re: What are the odds ?
Post by: Tal on August 14, 2013, 06:56:53 PM
The aces and the jacks can be in any order, so the odds are better than that.

Still haven't been bothered to do all the maths, so sorry!


Title: Re: What are the odds ?
Post by: EvilPie on August 14, 2013, 07:07:17 PM
Thought I'd covered that by saying we've got 8/51 to hit then 7/50 etc......

Might be wrong obviously but can't see how right now.


Title: Re: What are the odds ?
Post by: Tal on August 14, 2013, 07:34:33 PM
I'll get a fag packet and a BetFred pen and work out you're right later.


Title: Re: What are the odds ?
Post by: cambridgealex on August 14, 2013, 07:36:15 PM
im doing some simple maths for open face chinese and my brain is being painfully tiresome with things that are very basic i'm sure.

If someone could answer this, with working, I'd be very grateful.

There are 8 cards dealt to 4 players A,B,C and D, so two each. Two of the 8 cards are picture cards. What are the odds that player A gets AT LEAST one picture card?


Title: Re: What are the odds ?
Post by: edgascoigne on August 14, 2013, 07:43:21 PM
im doing some simple maths for open face chinese and my brain is being painfully tiresome with things that are very basic i'm sure.

If someone could answer this, with working, I'd be very grateful.

There are 8 cards dealt to 4 players A,B,C and D, so two each. Two of the 8 cards are picture cards. What are the odds that player A gets AT LEAST one picture card?

Well player A's first draw sees him have a chance of 2/8.

If he hits (which happens 25% of the time) he is then 14.2857% or whatever it is to hit the next one). As such the chance of Player A scooping the two picture cards is x*y= 3.6%

He gets a couple of goes at getting one of the two. Calculated as:

 .75 (6/8 to brick)*.286 (2/7 to hit)= 21.43%
.25 (2/8 to hit) * .857 (6/7 to brick) = 21.43%

Sum them up and you get 46.46% chance of getting at least one picture.


Title: Re: What are the odds ?
Post by: Karabiner on August 14, 2013, 07:45:31 PM
In the old days at Gala Nottingham of self-dealt tourneys I once witnessed a hand where the flop was 9, 7, 3 and after much raising and shoving I folded my pocket 66 and the cards went on their backs.

Player A had 99, player B had 77, and player C had 33.

The turn was the case 3 and the river was a 6 !!!

Player C was none other than tikay and I would have thought that the coup was crooked except for one thing, I was the dealer.


Title: Re: What are the odds ?
Post by: cambridgealex on August 14, 2013, 07:57:54 PM
im doing some simple maths for open face chinese and my brain is being painfully tiresome with things that are very basic i'm sure.

If someone could answer this, with working, I'd be very grateful.

There are 8 cards dealt to 4 players A,B,C and D, so two each. Two of the 8 cards are picture cards. What are the odds that player A gets AT LEAST one picture card?

Well player A's first draw sees him have a chance of 2/8.

If he hits (which happens 25% of the time) he is then 14.2857% or whatever it is to hit the next one). As such the chance of Player A scooping the two picture cards is x*y= 3.6%

He gets a couple of goes at getting one of the two. Calculated as:

 .75 (6/8 to brick)*.286 (2/7 to hit)= 21.43%
.25 (2/8 to hit) * .857 (6/7 to brick) = 21.43%

Sum them up and you get 46.46% chance of getting at least one picture.

Cheers Ed. Was doing all sorts of permutation and factorial calculations and obviously making it much more complicated than it is.


Title: Re: What are the odds ?
Post by: edgascoigne on August 14, 2013, 08:02:03 PM
im doing some simple maths for open face chinese and my brain is being painfully tiresome with things that are very basic i'm sure.

If someone could answer this, with working, I'd be very grateful.

There are 8 cards dealt to 4 players A,B,C and D, so two each. Two of the 8 cards are picture cards. What are the odds that player A gets AT LEAST one picture card?

Well player A's first draw sees him have a chance of 2/8.

If he hits (which happens 25% of the time) he is then 14.2857% or whatever it is to hit the next one). As such the chance of Player A scooping the two picture cards is x*y= 3.6%

He gets a couple of goes at getting one of the two. Calculated as:

 .75 (6/8 to brick)*.286 (2/7 to hit)= 21.43%
.25 (2/8 to hit) * .857 (6/7 to brick) = 21.43%

Sum them up and you get 46.46% chance of getting at least one picture.

Cheers Ed. Was doing all sorts of permutation and factorial calculations and obviously making it much more complicated than it is.

A bit like when I used to 6-bet jam A2 and stuff like that?


Title: Re: What are the odds ?
Post by: Bertpup on August 14, 2013, 08:14:55 PM
Right then,

The odds of being dealt a pocket pair is 17:1

I can't quite decide what the calculation should be for the odds of two players being dealt a pocket pair, but have found a calculation for a 6 handed table (this was 7 handed), so am going to use that.

0 players dealt a pair is simply:
(16/17)^6 = 0.6951 for 6-handed
and
(16/17)^9 = 0.5795 for 9-handed

1 player dealt a pair is:
6*(1/17)*(16/17)^5 = 0.2606 for 6-handed
and
9*(1/17)*(16/17)^8 = 0.3296 for 9-handed

So 2 or more people being dealt a pair will roughly be:
1 - 0.6951 - 0.2606 = 0.0443 for 6-handed (1 in every 22.6 deals)
and
1 - 0.5795 - 0.3296 = 0.0909 for 9-handed (1 in every 11.0 deals)



So, the odds of two players getting dealt a pocket pair is 22:1

The odds of a third player then being dealt one each of those pocket pair cards is 564:1 (2/48 x 2/47)

And finally, the odds of the remaining case pocket pair cards being flopped is 15,180:1 (91,080 combinations of 46 cards being flopped, with 6 combinations of the two case cards being flopped)

Which would make the total odds 22 x 564 x 15,180 : 1 or 188,353,440 : 1


Seems a big number.  Have I missed something obvious ?  (Should I be ignoring the first odds, as the probabilty of the second and third part are already based on the first bit having happened ?)

My head is hurting here trying to work it out and i don't think i'm capable of doing the maths. However I think there are lots of permutations that bring the odds down of it happening.

Things like
 
Fiive players are dealt pocket pairs then that gives x number of 2 card combinations which could then show up on the flop.

so AA,KK,QQ,JJ,1010 would give ak aq aj a10 kq kj k10 qj q10 j10 then flops containing 2 of AKQJ10

I could just be sprouting shite for all i know though