I thought maybe this could be checked out. I find it strange that for about 2hrs of play I only got pocket pairs a few times. It was a very strange game in more ways than one. I recently received this message from a player (I’ll keep their identity private unless they wish me to reveal it): Early this morning I was playing on Miami Beach 2 for hours. This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled Pairs come hand in hand?. So the probability of someone else having a pair when you have one of your own is in fact low: the odds are between 1 : 4 and 1 : 5. Probability of two or more if there is at least one: 23.07 % Number of pairs in 100000 deals at a table of 9 players: It makes one hundred thousand deals at a table of 9 players and measures how many pairs are dealt in each turn. So I put together a little script which does this. But exactly how improbable? I could not easily set up an exact formula to establish this but why bother when you can run a simulation? Pairs seem to come hand in hand, which on an intuitive basis is very improbable. May be this is pure psychology but I somehow get the feeling that when one tries to go all in with a JJ there is somehow always a QQ, and for a KK there is always an AA and so on.
