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15/30 Stud Game atHollywoodPark. I’ve got split tens on the deal. I raise the bring in from early position. It’s fold around to a Queen up who calls. All others fold. Queen guy is a loose passive player. My image is selective aggressive (but he doesn’t seem particularly attentive). Blanks for each of us on fourth. He checks; I bet. Fifth pairs hisQueensand my Tens. He bets. I raise. He looks and calls. (I figure he doesn’t have Trips — but could he be slow playing? I’m about 80% sure that he hasQueensup or less.) Sixth are blanks. He checks. I bet. He calls. River is no improvement for either of us. He has three suited cards on board and a pair ofQueens. I have a pair of tens and mixed suits and ranks. He checks. I did not bet the River. I’m pretty sure I missed a bet. What do you all think?

Answer 1:

If you are 80% sure you can beat him you should bet EVERY time.

Answer 2:

When you raised him onFifth Street, you said he “looked” then called. Did you mean he looked at his cards or at you? If you meant his cards, I think that’s a pretty clear tell that he didn’t have trip queens. Would a loose passive player slow play trip queens to your raise or your bet onSixth Street? I wouldn’t think so. Would he check a flush or even trip queens on the river? He’d have to be awfully passive to do so if he feared your unlikely full house. I think you missed a bet. By the way, it was good to meet you the other day, I hope you had a profitable trip.

Answer 3:

If you’re trying for an “aggressive” image (even if it goes unremarked by most at the table) you must do this. The only downside is a decision concerning the possible raise. Sometimes you will not only be asking yourself afterwards if you “lost a bet” but if your opponent out of the blue decides to bluff-raise you might even have lost two. At worst you will have lost the one bet of calling his non-bluff raise.

I had 4 of a kind, 2 hands in a row while playing 3/6 HE, anyone know the odds of this?

Answer 1:

Well, you seem like an honest fellow. I would say that there is a 99% chance that you had 4 of a kind, 2 hands in a row and a 1% chance that you are a damn liar.

Answer 2:

The answer is “it depends”. It depends on what the question is….

q – What are the chances I am going to get quads on the next hand…
a – the same regardless of what your current hand is… (Your cards have no memory).

q – What are the chances I’ll get quads in both of the next two hands..
a – pretty damn slim

q – What are the chances I’ll get quads twice in a row sometime in the next x hands…

a – pretty damn slim when x=2, approaches 100% as x approaches infinity.

As had been demonstrated, statistical anomalies aren’t all that uncommon when the sample group is large.  In this case, everyone doesn’t report their ho-hum hands… (Did I tell you I got 78o followed by TJs last night?)… Most people don’t report their seemingly strange occurrences (recently I *flopped* a 7 card flush in Omaha twice in the same session).Which leaves a couple people like our original poster who feel compelled to post when something like this happens. At least he’s not suspecting a flawed dealing algorithm or someone hacking the dealing bot.

Answer 3:

Remember that when you have quad fives twice you don’t necessarily have the same hand. Consider how many ways you can make the hand. First, the fives can appear in any order, for 4*3*2*1=24 possible orderings. The last card has 48 possibilities, so you’ve got 24*48=1152 ways to make quad fives. That’s out of a total of 52*51*50*49*48=311,875,200.  1152 out of 311,875,200 is .000369%: about 1 in 271,000. The odd of this happening twice in a row is .00000369 * .00000369, or .00000000136%, which is roughly one in 73 billion.