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(assuming texas hold'em poker)

  1. If you have a flush, what’s the probability that someone else has a flush?

  2. What's the probability that someone else has a BETTER flush than you?

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    You'll have to be more specific on both questions. How many of the suit do you hold? How many of the suit is visible on the board? How good is your flush?2012-01-24
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    Note that this varies with the number of players; you should probably add that information. Also, it's worth noting that the answer is likely to be fairly complicated, as there are several different circumstances that have to be considered - e.g., if there are three cards to a suit on the board, vs. 4, vs. having a flush on-board. Are we presuming too that your hand is drawn randomly from all the hands that can make a flush? This seems unusually hard for homework...2012-01-24
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    If the board shows A K Q J T of the same suit, then everyone else has a flush.2012-01-24
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    @StevenStadnicki - why do you say it is homework? It seems to general to be homework Q, it seems like someone wants to know this for poker - I didn't realise we were a homework completion service only :-)2016-10-06

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