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    I've opened this topic to see if anyone out there has some interesting info they would like to share. We love this stuff at my home game.

    Please post your interesting facts for all to see

    here's some interesting info to kick it off:

    u can't have a str8 without having a 5 or a 10

    or how about this, the odds of hitting a royal flush are exactly the same as hitting a 5 high str8 flush. but people play low cards less often so a 5 high str8 flush is actually hit less often than a royal flush

    i'm eager to see what the forum can come up with along these line, thanks

    love ya mean it

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      CommentAuthorcmk21
    • CommentTimeJan 28th 2007
     

    Getting dealt 10,2 is referred to as Doyle Brunson because he won back to back World Series with the hand.

    Due to French influence, Spades represent Royalty, Diamonds represent Merchants, Clubs represent the peasants, and hearts represent the clergy.

    Former President Richard Nixon won $6,000 playing poker in his first two months in the U.S. Navy during WWll. That is roughly equal to $42,640 in 2004 dollars. He used that money as well as more poker winnings to finance his run for the U.S. Congress in 1946, which he won.

    Historians generally agree that Bill Hickock was a lousy poker player.

    In the 1800s, 2,000 to 2,500 riverboat gamblers played poker on American Waterways. By contemporary accounts, no more than four of these poker players were honest all the time. A straight beat a flush at this time.

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      CommentAuthorKardsh4rk
    • CommentTimeJan 28th 2007
     

    poker spelled backwards is rekop. Think about it.

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      CommentAuthorRemoth
    • CommentTimeJan 28th 2007
     

    This isn't really about poker, more about one of the best poker players...

    Amarillo Slim once bet someone $1 million that he could hit a golf ball a mile.....The guy took the bet. Slim hit the ball onto a frozen lake. THe ball ended up rolling a mile and a half.

    Thought that was pretty cool.

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      CommentAuthorintrepid69
    • CommentTimeJan 28th 2007
     

    The first poker chips were made of wood, bone, ivory, mother of pearl and, probably a few other materials. Sometime in the early 20th century they started making them out of clay. They still do, although hard plastic and other clay composites are also popular.

    Just my humble contribution..................

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      CommentAuthordrkato
    • CommentTimeJan 28th 2007
     

    The nuts here would be a straight flush, correct? So what makes this hand worse (odds-wise) than any other bookend straight flush hand like 7 3? Is this a combination of worst odds, and worst starting hand?

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      CommentAuthorrmharris
    • CommentTimeJan 28th 2007
     

    That's DEEP!!! 8)

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      CommentAuthorIABoomer
    • CommentTimeJan 29th 2007
     

    Precisely. 62 suited with a matching 3 4 5 of the same suit will flop a hand that cannot be outdrawn.

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    22 is an underdog vs. JTs. JTs is an underdog vs. AKs. AKs is an underdog to 22.

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      CommentAuthorSlySelea
    • CommentTimeJan 30th 2007
     

    Every time you make a full house, you must subsequently make two four-flushes to restore the fundamental equilibrium of the universe.

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      CommentAuthordrkato
    • CommentTimeJan 31st 2007
     

    I am dense, can you explain? Why is 6 2 suited worse than 7 2 os, or 5 2 suited? You can flop a boat with any two cards, how are you defining stone cold nuts?

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      CommentAuthorVogelB5
    • CommentTimeJan 31st 2007
     

    I love that Slim story. I wonder how mad the guy who made the bet was, probably felt like a fool.

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      CommentAuthordanyn9878
    • CommentTimeJan 31st 2007
     

    hes saying that the odds of flopping the nuts with 62s is the lowest of all the two card combonations

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      CommentAuthormorag12
    • CommentTimeJan 31st 2007
     

    AKs is actully a very slight fav over 22

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      CommentAuthorrmharris
    • CommentTimeFeb 5th 2007
     

    I believe what he is trying to say is that 62s can flop the stone cold nuts because is 3,4,5 of that suit hit the flop.. the hand can not be beaten.

    But a hand like 72o can flop the nuts but its not the stone cold nuts. The flop could come 7,7,7.. but someone could have any pocket pair higher than a seven and still have a draw to the nuts. also someone could have 3 to a straight flush draw as well.

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    boy this thread really went for a spin.

    i got suprisingly little info from this little fishing trip but thanks to all for posting anyway

    notes on some posts:

    no str8 without 5 OR T in hand. it's either/or, someone misread it

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    62s flops an unbeatable str8 flush, the nuts, by anyones definition.

    33 > AKs > JTs > 33, now that's interesting!

    can anyone say RSB

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      CommentAuthorIABoomer
    • CommentTimeFeb 5th 2007
     

    62s is the worst possible starting hand that can flop the stone cold nuts.

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    HE hand: AA Omaha Hand: KKKK

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      CommentAuthorRiddim
    • CommentTimeFeb 5th 2007
     

    I think it's just a matter of you guys having a way too narrow definition of the stone cold nuts.

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    If you have a 26 spades and the flop comes 345 spades you have the stone cold nuts there is no possible way they can draw to a better hand. When they can't draw to a better hand it is the stone cold nuts. No possible way to get a higher straight flush or make a royal flush.

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      CommentAuthorGripHoldOn
    • CommentTimeFeb 5th 2007
     

    A hold 'em hand under hold 'em rules can have an omaha hand under omaha rules drawing dead preflop, but an omaha hand can't do that to a hold 'em hand.

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      CommentAuthorrmharris
    • CommentTimeFeb 5th 2007
     

    OK.. i thought thats what you were trying to say.. so then why is everyone having such a hard time with wat ur saying.

    62s is the worst preflop hand that can flop the stone could nuts.

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      CommentAuthorRiddim
    • CommentTimeFeb 5th 2007
     

    Actually, any two cards can do that.

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      CommentAuthormush237
    • CommentTimeFeb 5th 2007
     

    9 high straight cannot be made when holding T5.

    Fairly obvious, but noone had said it and I'm bored.

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      CommentAuthorftn_chris
    • CommentTimeFeb 5th 2007
     

    god KGB stop dropping the ball.

    Heres another one: in holdem, you are dealt two cards. But in omaha, you are dealt 4.

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    My bad. It was AK offsuit, not suited.

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      CommentAuthormorag12
    • CommentTimeFeb 5th 2007
     

    The odds against getting a pocket pair are 16-1, meaning that there is a one in 17 chance. 17^4 = 83,521. So, the odds that your next four hands will contain pocket pairs is 83,520 to 1.

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    Using the full tilt odds calculator I found that the last statement is not exaclty true. AKs is actually a favorite over 22 by 0.17%. However, i found that by replacing 22 with 33 makes all statements true.

    I will certianly share this with my friends, very interesting!

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      CommentAuthorRiddim
    • CommentTimeFeb 5th 2007
     

    No, 32o and 72o can do it as well. Choose which one of them is worse depending on the circumstances.

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      CommentAuthordumwaldo
    • CommentTimeFeb 5th 2007
     

    but deep backwards is pee'd

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      CommentAuthorchardbs
    • CommentTimeFeb 6th 2007
     

    You can't make a str8 without 5 or a 10, but there is one straight you CANNOT make with 10-5 in your hand.

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      CommentAuthorIABoomer
    • CommentTimeFeb 9th 2007
     

    Sure any 2 cards can flop the absolute nuts, but 62 suited is the worst hand that can do it.

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      CommentAuthordmoore1998
    • CommentTimeFeb 15th 2007
     

    You can't make a 9-high straight.

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      CommentAuthorDahnamics
    • CommentTimeFeb 16th 2007
     

    which?

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    Actually AKs is a slight dog to 22 if one of the 2's is of the suit. Specifically by a margin of .59%

    When neither of the deuces share the suit, it is a dog by .17%.

    There are 6 ways to get deuces, 3 of which have the duece of the suit involvedd and 3 of which don't. So half the time you will be .59% ahead and half the time you will be .17% behind, this effectively means dueces are a slight favorite unless you specify the suits involved.

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