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Originally Posted by Markusgc
you don't have to see all those hands yourself - they're being dealt all the time at other tables. If it's a 15000-1 shot it means that 1 hand out of 15000 will have that anomaly. That doesn't mean it has to be 1 out or your 15000, as long as it's statistically in line with that figure over a large enough sample size, ie if it happens 3x over 30000 hands that's not too odd - it should even out over the long run. So until the theorists can show data proving otherwise that's all they are - theories.
You're confusing the probabilities again. The chance that, having shown down AA vs. 99 or something six consecutive times, that AA will have lost each time is 1 in 15625. But, in order to even
see AA against a lower pair, the odds against are 1 in 5500. So, in order to see AA vs. lower pair six times, you'd have to statistically play around 33,000 hands. In order, statistically, to see it happen six consecutive times, you'd need about half-a-billion hand.
Note, also, that if 15,625 people have each played 33,000 hands, there's a very reasonable chance that one of them has had AA cracked six times by a lower pair. Odds are, also, that he's complaining on 2+2.