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Old 05-13-2006, 04:00 PM   #18 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by ShapeShifter
10 man tourney. $500 bucks in the pot. It comes down to be and my buddy Bryan heads up. I was down in chips, but still enough to work with. I get dealt pocket Kings. I move all in before the flop. Bryan calls and flips over pocket Aces.

Un-fucking-believable.
The chances of that exact event happening is: 1 out of 48400! (The odds of being dealt AA or KK are both 1/220, so the odds of both events happening at the same time is 1 / (220 x 220))

Though that doesn't account for similar situations like JJ vs. KK or AQ vs. AK; and then when you consider the number of hands you play, the odds really aren't *that* bad of something like this happening. I've had it happen to me and seen it happen lots. Most memorable time was when my QQ lost to KK about 5 minutes into an afternoon of poker with my friends; the flop came all rags so I thought I was good, as there were only 2 hands that could've called my pre-flop raise and still be beating me at the time. He had one of them <_< I lost half my stack there. But then I did pretty good and made it to the last 3 of 10 people; but then I lost to the same guy with AK against: 9-5!!! I flopped a king with a ragged board, and he called my all-in bet with only a pair of fives - then the river was a 9. Bastard.
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