I get this site is random (2+2=5, I love Big Brother). What are the odds of three people having the exact same hand out of 5 players and all three making the same straight?
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Sounds like more of a hand review before poker discussion, would be interesting to see the hand played out. Please share the hand if possible
GL at the tables
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Here is the hand, TOTALLY RANDOM DEALING FOR SURE 
You didn’t all have the same hand though.
2 players had 7 9 and one player had 9 7.
On a serious note, a month’s experience has led me to believe the algorithm is flawed.
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I call it a good catch
gc
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Ok, saw the hand, that is not strange at all-happens a lot in cash or free games…
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Depends on what game----A few games you have multiple ppl. with the same hand—NOW, if it is 7-stud, i would think it is strange:)…Can we see the hand please…
Sorry, it is hard to take you seriously when you claim a hand like that happens a lot.
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The odds of that hand happening is exactly the same as any other hand happening. Each and every hand is equally likely to be dealt at any given time. That’s how random odds work.
The 2+2=5 and the all caps comment above implies you feel this hand proves Replay is manipulating the distribution of cards. Why?. like really why?. If you were secretly controlling the deal wouldn’t you disable the ability for any questionable hand to be dealt?. You would hide the evidence, wouldn’t you?.
Now if the site had anything to hide, 1 click = this thread gone.
This hand happened, so what?
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The sort of thing that gets my goat is it seems that so often when one player gets a pp, 2 other players have pp’s as well. Don’t know the odds of that, but it certainly happens a lot.
Sorry, i been playing poker (casino, online cash and free here) for MANY years, it does happen a lot.
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the replay apologists come out with a defence for replay. What do you get out of trying to appease the players who know the cards here are flawed. I want an apology from replay, not a coverup by people who dont know any better.
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How do you know the cards are flawed?. Can you please share your proof. Analyse 10,000 consecutive hands and show evidence.
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I have played live and online for over 30 years, it doesn’t happen a lot. So hard to take you seriously.
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I’m still laughing at your response of “The odds of that hand happening is exactly the same as any other hand happening.” Thanks for participating though, you added a lot to this discussion. ROTFL
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Please define “a lot” , by giving the odds of three people having the exact same hand out of 5 players and all three making the same straight. Thank you.
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I don’t believe this is correct otherwise the probabilities of these hands would be same and as you can see in the table of hand rankings below, they are not the same.
I consider Odds and Probabilities having the same definition.
What I find interesting is to remember that almost 50% of the time someone can have a pair and 100% of the time someone will have high card.
feelmysins is correct, but they’re just talking about what cards get dealt, not what ranking is assigned to the hand they make. That is, the odds of having exactly Kh8cQd2s7h is the same as having a royal flush in diamonds, we’re only talking about a single combination in both cases.
In relation to the original question, 3 players would all be dealt a 9 and a 7 sixteen times more often than 3 players would be dealt exactly AsTc, KhQh and 6c6s for example. Three players being dealt the same hand if it doesn’t have to be 9 & 7 would happen 1040 times more often than those three exact hands (or any 3 exact hands for that matter).
The odds of all 3 players making the straight when they have the same hand is 100% if any of them make it, so the odds are just the odds of making a straight.
lijue, feelsmyssins is not even a little correct. We are not talking about getting 5 specific cards compared to a royal flush in diamonds. We are talking about 3 players getting a 7 and a 9 in 5 handed play. Remember, there are only four 9’s and 4 7’s total. So once 7’s and 9’s are distributed the odds of other getting those goes down. Of course if one makes it they all make it, they have the same starting hand. Your analysis doesn’t address what I asked.
The second part of my first post directly addresses getting 3 players getting a 9 & 7 (how many other players are dealt cards has no effect on the odds)
Like you said, there are four 9’s and 4 7’s, so there’s 16 ways the first player can be dealt 9x7x, 9 ways for the second player, then 4 ways for the third player. That’s 16 * 9 * 4 = 576, which you have to divide by 6 because it doesn’t matter which player gets each combination, resulting in 96 ways to deal 9x7x to three players. There’s only 6 ways to deal AsTc, KhQh and 6c6s to three players, but you wouldn’t think anything of it if you saw three players show up with those hands.
The thing is, even if the odds of three players being dealt 9x7x and making a straight was < 1 in 1 million, seeing it happen once tells you absolutely nothing about how random the deal is.
It’s an interesting hand - I can’t recall ever having seen it happen - it just doesn’t mean anything. I’ve never made a royal flush either, but there’s no denying those happen.