3 hands all same suit in 3 card poker
For any suit (as long as they're all the same suit): 1 in 1,286,390
Shit happens.
Quote: picturemanThe dealer qualified with a Q.ueen high, but I had a King high and the other player had an Ace high. We both beat the dealer.
OK that is an amazingly awesome hand then.
Quote: onenickelmiracleThose are some long odds. I don't know if it's just me, but when I hear of such events, I have to assume the odds of it being actually not random are higher than being a random event. Some kind of shuffling error or machine malfunction.
Not really. Have to realize its an odd even to witness but there are a lot of 3 card poker machines and rare events just happen. I mean the odds of any single person getting hit by lightning exceedingly low but many people do. Or the lotto chance of someone winning lotto is astronomically low but people win all the time.
Quote: onenickelmiracleMy premise is although it could be legit, it just makes more sense for it to be a mistake. Human error screws up all the odds.
Why though? 1 in a million seems unusual but in the realm of possibilities when you consider how many hands of 3 card poker are dealt. Forum poster happened to be there when it happened but someone was bound to be there when it happened. Again lotto is like 1 in 200 million or something like that and yet people win that without any cheating happening.
Quote: picturemanThis happened randomly. It was not after they exchanged the cards for new ones. Besides, even they did, new cards are mixed and spread out all over the table. As far as a machine malfunction, how is that possible? The machine that mixes the cards doesn't read the cards. All it does is mix and puts 3 cards into the next slot on the wheel.
who told you it doesnt read the cards?
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I stand corrected!..but I won the hand
Quote: picturemanThe dealer qualified with a Q.ueen high, but I had a King high and the other player had an Ace high. We both beat the dealer.
The dealer always qualifies with a flush, whether it is queen-high or 2-3-5.
Quote: onenickelmiracleThose are some long odds. I don't know if it's just me, but when I hear of such events, I have to assume the odds of it being actually not random are higher than being a random event. Some kind of shuffling error or machine malfunction.
I can see your point, but when you consider how many 3 card poker hands are dealt per year worldwide, you could definitely expect this to happen yearly somewhere in a completely random game, likely more often than that. I'd love to be Derek Webb right now.
This is what I tried to explain in a different thread. Every time you get dealt a hand on video poker, the odds of that hand coming up in that exact combination, defies the odds.Quote: Mission146Every unique combination of nine cards is extremely and equally unlikely to occur, if you break it down by rank and suit, but we only notice it when it is a made hand of some sort. Despite the fact that all of the combinations of cards, taken individually, are extremely unlikely to occur, one of them always must...unless the dealer has a heart attack and dies in the middle of the shuffle.
Quote: JBThe dealer always qualifies with a flush, whether it is queen-high or 2-3-5.
You are right! I'm so used to having the dealer qualify with a Queen. I just knew at that moment that my flush beat the dealers.
