Hey Guys,
Hows everyone doing in the poker community. I have been running into alot of the same pokcet pair vs pocket pair hands lately. Queens vs. Queens, 8s vs. 8s, 7s vs 7s, and then twice in the last week I have had Aces vs. Aces all in to a split pot. Any of you guys run into this often??

It's weird. I haven't experienced it may be just once or twice in the past year but not so much often. Where did you play ? Pokerstars or other room ?

I have had it happen 2 times that I can remember, the last being yesterday. The other time I remember well as they actually won the hand on a flush. Its going to happen but not often, I have folded a few pocket pairs as they were low and someone pushes. I wonder If I ever folded to the same pair I was holding.

I had Jack's against Jack's not yo long ago. I think it's all about numbers and percentages I guess. But you might be playing alot more hands too than average. Good luck

Hi there Partner. I have had that happen a couple of times even with AK, But it is poker it happens. You know what is really cool, is when that happens and you get a flush, not so fun though when they get one on you :O) Good luck out there and keep grinding

Certainly not often, but it does happen. Losing to a flush in this situation also is not common, but it does happen. Play a lot of poker, see a lot unusual results. For the record, if you are one of those who thinks this proves online poker is rigged, stop playing now afore you drive yourself bonkers.

Often enough. I have both won and lost due to flush draws. You need to play chicken once in a while to see who will swerve off the road first.

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Yes, as a matter of fact, yesterday I run with JJ against JJ and I lost, he made a flush-terrible bad beat

Rediculous moments , 2 players to be all in and either one of them to win with a flush , or a 3rd player with another pp , higher than theirs to win , or another with a lower pp to make a set and win (or have another big hand , hit on board and win ) . The last one , if it happens when you both are really short stacked , it's really for laughs .... or for tears .....

Originally Posted by david1bear

Hi there Partner. I have had that happen a couple of times even with AK, But it is poker it happens. You know what is really cool, is when that happens and you get a flush, not so fun though when they get one on you :O) Good luck out there and keep grinding

Yes, had similar thing happened to me few weeks ago on CC freeroll.
Only it was AQ, all in preflop, spades against clubs ... luckily for me i got flush right on the flop

I wouldn’t say that’s happened to me that often that I can remember but it’s bound to happen at some point.

I did used to think every time I got a pocket pair there was usually one or more players who had another different pocket pair but I reckon that was just chance as well

Hi!

I play quite a bit, but I don’t often have that. I think if someone plays a lot then it can happen several times. If you play 10 MTTs and 30 SNGs a day then it’s not a big deal to meet such a thing once or twice a week that you have the same pair. But if someone plays only one MTT a day and encounters the same pairs, you can tell that something is wrong.

Originally Posted by WeBeMerkinEm

Hey Guys,
Hows everyone doing in the poker community. I have been running into alot of the same pokcet pair vs pocket pair hands lately. Queens vs. Queens, 8s vs. 8s, 7s vs 7s, and then twice in the last week I have had Aces vs. Aces all in to a split pot. Any of you guys run into this often??

Sometimes there is much more "dangerous" situations.. I have KK, two other guys all-ins to me on preflop and... I have spent a few seconds, but folded it, because it looks for me as coin flip this time for all of my stack and was too risky to loose it in the middle off tournament... And I was damn right because one of the all-ined guys aslo has KK, but another one - AA))
Also once I have AA and other guy with hand like 96o called me and he get flush...

On a table with 9 players the chance, someone else has the same pocket pair as you, is around 1:150. The chance of getting dealt a pocket pair is 1:17. So around every 2.550 hands this is supposed to happen in a full ring game. So its not quite as extraordinary, as it might seem. In a typical session I play maybe 1.000 hands, so once in every 2-3 sessions I should expect this to happen.

But I wont always know it. If its AA vs AA or KK vs KK, then normally the chips or money go in, and we get to showdown. But that is totally not the case, if its 22 vs. 22 or 33 vs. 33. So these instances mostly fly under radar, especially because per definition neither player is able to make a set.

I had it but very rarely. Even on the table, such cases are very rare.

Today i got AA vs AA. Very disappointing

Well, it’s sure to happen more often these days than it should.
And such are the A, K vs A, K more and more times lately.

it happened but not as often as yours

Originally Posted by fundiver199

On a table with 9 players the chance, someone else has the same pocket pair as you, is around 1:150. The chance of getting dealt a pocket pair is 1:17. So around every 2.550 hands this is supposed to happen in a full ring game. So its not quite as extraordinary, as it might seem. In a typical session I play maybe 1.000 hands, so once in every 2-3 sessions I should expect this to happen.

But I wont always know it. If its AA vs AA or KK vs KK, then normally the chips or money go in, and we get to showdown. But that is totally not the case, if its 22 vs. 22 or 33 vs. 33. So these instances mostly fly under radar, especially because per definition neither player is able to make a set.

Thanks fundiver. I always appreciate the people who provide the mathematical answers to these kinds of questions. Rather than guessing, or using anecdotal evidence, it is the pure math of 52 cards and the probabilities.
Yes - I saw it last night in a 2 hour session - AA vs AA. Only way to win - catch a flush.
Another example - in a live tourney a guy in front of me went all-in on the first hand. I had AA so I also shoved it in. You guessed it - we both had pocket rockets and split the blinds.

Originally Posted by Herkstwin

Yes - I saw it last night in a 2 hour session - AA vs AA. Only way to win - catch a flush. Another example - in a live tourney a guy in front of me went all-in on the first hand. I had AA so I also shoved it in. You guessed it - we both had pocket rockets and split the blinds.

Its always a bit of an anticlimatic feeling, when its AA vs. AA. You are so excited, you got action, until you see his cards. What really sucks though is, if the opponent then makes a flush. I have been on both the good and bad end of that outcome

I find myself in such situations very rarely. But the most interesting thing is when you see opponents go all in preflop aces against aces, but one of them collects a flush on the river.

Good afternoon.Of course,it has happened to me , even with AA.By the way,yesterday on 888, I was all in with AKh vs AK off and, as in most of the cases, we split the pot.

You're lucky !

For me it's higher pocket pair vs. lower pocket pair and i loose....

Originally Posted by Herkstwin

Thanks fundiver. I always appreciate the people who provide the mathematical answers to these kinds of questions. Rather than guessing, or using anecdotal evidence, it is the pure math of 52 cards and the probabilities.
Yes - I saw it last night in a 2 hour session - AA vs AA. Only way to win - catch a flush.
Another example - in a live tourney a guy in front of me went all-in on the first hand. I had AA so I also shoved it in. You guessed it - we both had pocket rockets and split the blinds.

Hi. About the only way to win a flush in such cases, I completely agree with you. In my case, there was a division with mismatched AQ, I was not particularly pleased with this

I saw it once won by red A but ITS 99% a split

Its funny i had it even with pocketrockets...

We had 99 vs 99 and a 3rd opponent with JJ so you know how it ended for us

When I play at PokerStars I see anything and everything there and yes I do get pairs against same pairs, but not often, of course.

no, i am not, not really

I had AA vs AA vs KK first hand in a Tourney on 888, us AA's lost too trip K's..

Not often for obvious unlikely probability, but I've come across this a few times. My most recent one was deep in a cardschat freeroll about a week ago. I was short-stacked and I shoved 66. Not thrilled with shoving this lower pocket pair, but I'm short-stacked. I'm hoping to take the pot uncontested or perhaps double up from a coin-flip versus AK or AQ etc. Everyone folds except for one caller. They also have 66 pocket pair. We split the pot and play continued. In the chat, I sent something like a smiling emoji or a friendly comment (I think I said: "Nice hand " or something like that).

This made me think of this instance though: Negreanu vs Matusow 97o "donkey" play lol

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Hi!
That's already happened to me quite a few times, but not that frequently. Of course the more you play the more you see things happening again. For example, yesterday I played 4 tourneys and did not see any (pocket vs pocket). Nice week.

Hi! I very rarely met the same pocket pairs for me and my opponent, but KK/QQ/JJ against AA/KK/QQ - a thousand times

I recently ran KK into KK.. and AA in the same hand. drawing almost dead with KK lol

in some sites like Intertops it is quite common to find combat between the same pairs

I Have seen this happen a few times over the years but it is rare. I remember one tournament I was playing at Poker Stars a few years back where I saw AK suited lose to AK off suit and then a little later I saw AA lose to AA. Was crazy but funny as hell since I wasn't involved...just watching at the table while playing. Recently I saw 2 players have pocket 4's up against a higher pocket pair....so basically they had zero outs.. lol

You're right,it's been happening a lot lately...And they also give not only two players and the third one, too...And it's not just on one room...

Funny post, remembered me of something...
I onde played a hand that I joined raised from the button with KK, the BB called and so did the HJ. I guess the flop went something like a rainbow disconnected flop, with only low cards, and it ended up with the BB dunk betting 1/2 pot, that me and the other player paid. The turn came with a K, and the same player bet again, we all pay. At the river, he bets again and I raise all win, the 2 players pay. It turns out I had the three of a kind "K", and the other 2 players had the aces.

Originally Posted by WeBeMerkinEm

Hey Guys,
Hows everyone doing in the poker community. I have been running into alot of the same pokcet pair vs pocket pair hands lately. Queens vs. Queens, 8s vs. 8s, 7s vs 7s, and then twice in the last week I have had Aces vs. Aces all in to a split pot. Any of you guys run into this often??

today I had this situation, AA versus AA, but the flop came 4 of the same suit and I won that hand)))

I'm not talking about the "same pocket pairs cause", it happened that I lost again vs same pocket pair... the same old history: if someone hits the flush, you're gonna have a bad time.

The only way to no tie same pocket pair is on a board with 4 cards suited. If the board is all suited we can still tie if the board has higher cards than we do. Never happened to me...

If you play enough hands, this is bound to happen. It is rare, and it is even rarer that 4 of the same suit come to give one a flush.

Originally Posted by WeBeMerkinEm

Hey Guys,
Hows everyone doing in the poker community. I have been running into alot of the same pokcet pair vs pocket pair hands lately. Queens vs. Queens, 8s vs. 8s, 7s vs 7s, and then twice in the last week I have had Aces vs. Aces all in to a split pot. Any of you guys run into this often??

It definitely happens sometimes. Not anything to really put much thought into though.
Just be onto the next hand and do your best to play it the best you can!

didnt happend for me but i saw a few hands with same pair in the last year.

I got that often this days than usually dnno why, but on pokerstars at least AK vs AK is pretty much common lol. it might because i play pretty much hands on a session too!

It's definitely rare.

It's always funny when you have the same pocket pair because of the theoretical blockers. There are only 6 combinations of pocket pairs and you both have one of the 6 combinations pre-flop. That's so unlikely.