Re: [DL] 5 Deck of Cards - PS This will be long folks...

["Jeff Tolle" <jwtolle@hotmail.com>]

Actually this hit me last night that I had messed up in the logic.  That is, 
there is at least 13 ways to make four of a kind. One way with each member 
of a suit.

This is not to disagree with Alan, I was thinking w/o Jokers.  I took the 
easy way out!  His figures include Jokers.

And I heartily agree.  I takes a better statistician than me to figure out 
the extra suit and extra Joker problem.  I tried last night, and lets just 
say that I failed my guts roll.

I'm goin back in, but not until this weekend.  Besides sweet, sweet Courtney 
Cox was on the TV.

Jeff "Mmmmmmm  Courtney"  Tolle


----Original Message Follows----
From: Allan Seyberth <darious@darious.com>

>In a regular deck of cards you have but one chance of getting 4 of a >kind. 
>  In a deck with 5 suits you have 5 ways of making 4 of a >kind.  To offset 
>this increase in odds, you would need 5 times as >Many combinations of 
>draws from a 65 card deck than a 52 card deck.

Actually - you have 624 chances at four of a kind in a regular poker deck 
with jokers out of 2.5 million possible combinations (5 card pull).
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