What are the odds?

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I was playing hold em on Stars today.. My hole cards were 10 Q

I ended up getting quad queens, with a set of tens on the side.

Would anyone be able to calculate the odds of getting quads and a set on the same hand? Seems to me its less likely than getting a royal flush.

Unknown

Eric270 wrote: »

I ended up getting quad queens, with a set of tens on the side.

Hobbes

[ ] had a set

GTA Poker

50 50 -- prolly higher if you are playing with an unlimited 2/5 bankroll

Popkorn

Eric270, I'll answer you seriously, I'm assuming you mean the board ran out QQQTT, pretty much filling almost all the case cards. It's definitely very rare, but if you've played over 100,000 hands of poker, you'll see a lot of rare hands come up. In terms of numbered odds, maybe someone can calculate it for you, but in reality....does it really matter?

Richard~

simple, you're holding 2 cards, then you have 5 outs for the first card, 4 for the 2nd 3 for the third 2 for the 4th etc, mathematically it's

5!/(50!/45!) or 5/50 * 4/49 * 3/48 * 2/47 * 1/46

now go run that through a calculator and multiply it by 100 to get % :P

trigs

Richard~ wrote: »

simple, you're holding 2 cards, then you have 5 outs for the first card, 4 for the 2nd 3 for the third 2 for the 4th etc, mathematically it's

5!/(50!/45!) or 5/50 * 4/49 * 3/48 * 2/47 * 1/46

now go run that through a calculator and multiply it by 100 to get % :P

i always hated finite math. definitely preferred algebra (and even calculus).

wildbill7145

I took them all in grade 13. At this point, I can't remember a bloody thing about any of it.

Sad, as I really used to enjoy that stuff.

GTA Poker

That would be grade school arithmetic: )

DataMn

Richard~ wrote: »

simple, you're holding 2 cards, then you have 5 outs for the first card, 4 for the 2nd 3 for the third 2 for the 4th etc, mathematically it's

5!/(50!/45!) or 5/50 * 4/49 * 3/48 * 2/47 * 1/46

now go run that through a calculator and multiply it by 100 to get % :P

This is wrong, since there are 6 cards that he could hit. It is actually 3*2*1*3*2*2*5!/3!/2! Over 50!/45!

(The first extra *2 is the fact that you could quad either your higher or lower card. The 5!/3!/2! Is to compensate for the different orders that the cards could come in)
Or about 1 in 175,563

compuease

Lol, wondered if Al would find this... Our resident math guru is rarely wrong..

trigs

wildbill7145 wrote: »

I took them all in grade 13. At this point, I can't remember a bloody thing about any of it.

Sad, as I really used to enjoy that stuff.

i took them all in grade 13 as well. i always like math but i didn't want to take it in college. too much math theory involved. also, math is the type of class that you can't skip ^-^

neverlookback

thats like a super-full house hahahahaha