Re: OT: A funny thing happend to me at an Indian casino . . .

On 27 Feb 2006 09:26:07 -0800, "CmdrMark" <cmdrmark@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Not wishing to start a fight (nor question your premise that it's
extremely unlikely that two machines would have the exact same cards
appear for both the deal and subsequent 3 card draw), I do have a
quibble with the probability of such an event occurring as you've
indicated.

In his case, the same cards were in the same order. You are using probabilities
of being (somewhere) in the same hand.
.

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