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Poker Hands<br />

• how many possible hands?<br />

⎛52⎞ 52!<br />

⎜ ⎟=<br />

= 2,598,960<br />

⎝ 5 ⎠ 5!47!<br />

– roughly 4 in 10 million<br />

• one pair, with 3 different remaining cards<br />

– number of ways to have a pair<br />

– number of ways to have the remaining cards<br />

⎛4⎞ 3 ⎛12⎞ 13⎜ ⎟4⎜ ⎟<br />

2 3<br />

p(one<br />

pair) =<br />

⎝ ⎠ ⎝ ⎠<br />

≈.42<br />

⎛52⎞ ⎜ ⎟<br />

⎝ 5 ⎠<br />

• full house (.0014)? flush? (.00198) nothing?<br />

⎛4⎞ 13⎜ ⎟<br />

⎝2⎠ ⎛12⎞ (4)(4)(4) ⎜ ⎟<br />

⎝ 3 ⎠

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