I dont agree a straight flush in PLO is 1100-1, its not what im seeing when googling it.
Alot of players mention 'getting banned' when i post what i feel will be interesting to some and theres a 'copy and paste' option on viewing your own hand history. There is also a 'bad beats and variance' section on the Forum, which will always attract disgruntled players.
If these options are going to be used to 'trap' players into a ban, then its a poor show.
If you read any reviews on any online poker sites, clearly players are completely split on whether what they are seeing is a random occurence or not. If they start banning players just for having doubts on daily occurences of huge odds being overturned, then online poker will die very quickly. For it accounts for at least 50% of players. But we play as for most of us its the only place we can and we accept everything that comes with it. But we make the mistake of thinking we can chat about it.
If a certain dealer in a casino produces huge odds over and over, a player would start to doubt the dealer. In the old days, if a horse won at over 25-1 or so, there was an automatic stewards enquiry into how it could possibly happen. Its natural to question how on earth something is happening if odds say it shouldnt. Thats life.
Im happy to leave the forum to the guys who get angry and ultra defensive talking about what will always, im afraid, be the number one subject in online poker. Or maybe I will do a St Mark, who knows.....
No there wasn't ...... as usual you're talking utter rubbish
Maybe you've got fed up of people poking you in your Ape Enclosure and you're trying to poke people through the bars of your cage .....probably is working 'coz I'm replying to your moronic posts
Maybe in your little world, you think there may have been a 'Stewards' over a horse winning at 25/1....... but in reality, they're actually fairly easy to find...... but only if you look hard enough, but you're obviously only fixated with Poker
GOOD LUCK
I can't believe you're moaning about getting two straight Flushes in 40mins (don't think you posted the 3rd one)..... why can't you just be happy?
Pity it wasn't against you, with you having the bottom end Straight Flush ........ you would have been properly 'spitting feathers' then ..... or whatever it is that Orangutan's do in their enclosures
Also important to remember that the odds of getting 3 straight flushes in any 40 minutes is far higher than when you start counting after the 1st straight flush. Because you only need 2 in 40 minutes after the first
I am a saddo who genuinely loves this sort of maths.
A cursory look for this sort of info on google will only come up with the stats of flopping a straight flush. Which is, of course, far rarer.
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Maybe in your little world, you think there may have been a 'Stewards' over a horse winning at 25/1....... but in reality, they're actually fairly easy to find...... but only if you look hard enough, but you're obviously only fixated with Poker
GOOD LUCK
I can't believe you're moaning about getting two straight Flushes in 40mins (don't think you posted the 3rd one)..... why can't you just be happy?
Pity it wasn't against you, with you having the bottom end Straight Flush ........ you would have been properly 'spitting feathers' then ..... or whatever it is that Orangutan's do in their enclosures
The starting point is this. Would mention that this involves some fairly advanced maths.
http://people.math.sfu.ca/~alspach/mag99/
There have been arguments in the last 20 years about this. But it is generally agreed that it is between 1 in 1100-1200 hands.
Take, for example the 100 million hand sample in this thread:-
https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/25/probability/straight-flush-odds-plo-poker-prob-primer-1630648/index2.html
Also important to remember that the odds of getting 3 straight flushes in any 40 minutes is far higher than when you start counting after the 1st straight flush. Because you only need 2 in 40 minutes after the first
I am a saddo who genuinely loves this sort of maths.
A cursory look for this sort of info on google will only come up with the stats of flopping a straight flush. Which is, of course, far rarer.