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LOL Party Poker is such BS

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Originally posted by: BigJ
Originally posted by: ruffilb
Originally posted by: cherrytwist
Originally posted by: BigJ
"The Law of Truly Large Numbers"

Explain?

Here's a very easy to understand explanation.

In a small sample space (say a million), you have an event that is extremely unlikely to happen. Say the probability is 1 in a million. But as you increase the sample space (say by 10x, 100x, 1000x), this even will be expected to occur more and more often. As the sample space gets "Truly Large", this event is expected to occur, and may be expected to occur many times based on how large the sample space is.

Because Party Poker plays so many rounds of poker per day, you can say the number of round overall becomes a "truly large number." Therefore, such seemingly improbable hands such as a Royal Straight Flush, Royal Flush, and 4 of a kind, occur much, much more often than you would see in a real life poker game.

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