| This is a discussion on Duplicate hands in Zoom Poker? within the online poker forums, in the General Poker section; I am playing a lot of Zoom poker on PS at the moment and am amazed at the amount of times I get the same ... |
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| Duplicate hands in Zoom Poker? I am playing a lot of Zoom poker on PS at the moment and am amazed at the amount of times I get the same hand on 2 tables at the same time, I never find this in normal games, has anyone else noticed this? Maybe it is just a coincidence but to me it is more like a glitch in the software, within 5 mins just now I was dealt JJ on 2 tables and then AA on 2 tables, I do play the max 4 tables at a time but still dont think this should happen? Do you think I am just being paranoid about this? I'm not sure? |
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| Paranoid. If you don't count suits there are 169 starting hands in Holdem. Playing 4 tables at roughly 300 hands/hr will see every hand approximately 7 times every hour or a little less than 2 times on each table. If you stop to play 1 hand that lasts 1 minute on 1 table you will fold through roughly 15 hands on the other 3. This is all approximate so lets just call those 15 hands 1/10th of the total starting hands. If so, then we should see matching hands about 1 out of every 10 times you play a hand to the river and say 1 of every 20 times you play but fold or win before. Let's average that out to 1 in 15. If you play 25% of your hands, every hour you should see about 300 hands per hour that last long enough to compare to the other 3 tables. Your cards should match one of the other tables approximately 1/15 of the time. That's 20 times per hour or once every 3 minutes. We should probably slow this down a bit because there will be many times you play 2 or 3 hands at once, reducing the number of hands you fold through. Let's just say that seeing a duplicate every 10 minutes would not be unusual and there will be times when it happens a lot more. |
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| Too lazy to check your math, but yeah Even if you account for suits, the number of times you will see exact duplicates is not negligible - you will notice them. The human mind is absolutely amazing at picking up on patterns - so good, in fact, that it tends to find them where they do not exist. Particularly when it comes to runs of cards. |
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| re: Poker & Duplicate hands in Zoom Poker? It probably just one of those coincidence. One of those situation where it happens to a player and then it has them believing its rigged or something. I mean I'm not saying you think it rigged, but this where some of the rigged conspiracy come from. It just a coincidence |
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