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Poker - Combination Questions
I'm struggling a bit with this question so any help will be very much appreciated!
The premise is that two people, call them A and B, are playing a variant of poker where there's 3 shared cards, and ...
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Numbering system for poker hands
I figure that this is surely either a solved problem or it is provably impossible. But I'm not able to track down an answer.
There are ${52 \choose 5}$ = 2,598,960 distinct ways to deal five cards ...
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Probability for hand with no sets (3+ of a kind / straight flush of 3+ cards) or potential sets (no additional card can make a set) in a card game?
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In a gin variant, you win immediately if you are dealt a hand with no sets (3+ of a kind or suited run of 3+ cards) and no "potential sets", i.e. no additional card added to the hand could ...
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What's the probability for a 14-card hand to contain at least one full-house?
(This question is related to my previous question: When drawing 14 cards from a set of 52 cards, is it more likely to have a full house or two consecutive pairs?).
Problem: What is the probability ...
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When drawing 14 cards from a set of 52 cards, is it more likely to have a full house or two consecutive pairs?
This is a problem that has been bothering me for quite some time now:
When drawing 14 cards from a set of 52 cards (standard poker deck), is it more likely to have at least one full house or at least ...
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Probability of getting a particular card in Poker
Suppose, I am playing a poker match. I have a pair of 5 in hand and see that the there is no 5 in the first 3 drawn cards. What is the probability that there will be at least one 5 in the next two ...
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Game Theory Poker - Nash equilibrium: Choose between bet or raise and range of hands
I would like to understand how we choose the best action and how we compose the range for it.
I have some notion on zero-sum games and minmax strategies.
And I know software that does this for texas ...
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Combinatorics with playing cards
I have a question that I can't seem to find the answer to:
What are the odds of pulling 3 cards from a normal deck of playing cards (52 cards, 4 suits, 13 different values) and at least 2 of the ...
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Calculating combinations of a straight in Texas Hold 'Em
Similarly to a previous question that I've asked, I have now attempted to calculate the amount of all possible seven card combinations that would result in a straight (and nothing better).
The ...
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Calculating combinations of three of a kind in Texas Hold 'Em
The question sounds quite simple - in a game of Texas Hold'Em (or simply out of ${52 \choose 7}$), how many combinations of cards are there, that would result in three of a kind being the highest hand?...
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Optimal Double Up for Poker Game Reward in DanMachi Memoria Freese
I am trying to figure out the optimal times to double up my poker game reward in the casino in Danmachi Memoria Freese. Here is the details to figure it out.
This poker version uses joker as wild ...
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7 cards in sequence (suit does not matter)
Problem: Pick 7 cards from the regular 52 English cards deck, were they must be in order and suits don't matter (aces can loop).
As stated here for this similar problem, I suppose the answer would be ...
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Combinatorics question: Suppose you play a game of cards in which only 5 cards are dealt from a standard 52 deck.... [closed]
Suppose you play a game of cards in which only 5 cards are dealt from a standard 52 deck. How many ways are there to obtain at least 3 cards of the same suit?
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Probability of a Full House for five-card hand.
So I know this can be solved easily by counting the total ways to make a full house and dividing that by the total possible hands, but I want to know why another way I thought of to solve it is wrong.
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Game theory problem: Three man poker game
Mine question is from Three-Man Poker Game discussed in Nash's paper.
This is a greatly simplified version of poker. The cards are of only two kinds,
high and low. The three players A, B, and C ante ...
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