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Watch Monday's Video - Watch Tuesday's Video - See them ALL to be caught up on this week's videos! Among my best runs have been playing on 50 and 100-hand Video Poker machines usually playing Jacks or Better, which is my normal game of choice. Standard multi-hand video poker machines tend to work the same way – a hand is dealt, you keep your cards (which are retained for every hand on the board), and then the hand is played out x times, x being however many hands are on the screen.

• March 10, 2013

  How Many Royal Flushes Will You Get?

• Teacher note
  The video is actually Act 3, and would be shown as the reveal.
• 1.

  How many straight flushes would you expect the woman to get?

• 2.

  How many flushes would you expect the woman to get?

• 3.

  How many straights would you expect the woman to get?

• 4.

  How many pairs of Jacks or better would you expect the woman to get?

• 5.

  What is a guess that is too low?

• 6.

  What is a guess that is too high?

• 7.

  What is your best guess?

• Teacher note
  I debated on whether or not to include this problem given that it comes from a gambling context. Ultimately I decided that it is worth it because it is the best real life example of CCSS 7.SP. 6 and CCSS 7.SP.7 I can imagine. Where else in real life can you see an event with multiple outcomes play out 100 times in less than a minute to compare theoretical and experimental probability? 100 is also a fantastic number to work with as X% is literally X per hundred, so with 100 hands, we would expect to see X instances per hundred.
  Students will likely need some background both on poker hand rankings and how a 100-hand machine works.
  Poker Hand Rankings
  I am going to assume a basic understanding of a deck of cards and poker in general. This is a refresher of some of the poker hand rankings that are relevant to this lesson:
  Royal Flush – An A-K-Q-J-10 of the same suit (in this case A-K-Q-J-10 of hearts)
  Straight Flush – All five cards in a row and of the same suit (in this case K-Q-J-10-9 of hearts since A-K-Q-J-10 is considered a Royal Flush)
  Flush – All five cards are the same suit (in this case all Hearts)
  Straight – All five cards in a row (in this case A-K-Q-J-10 or K-Q-J-10-9 where all the cards are not the same suit)
  Pair of Jacks or better – A pair of cards within the five cards where both cards in the pair are J, Q, K, or A (in this case only pairs of J, Q, and K are possible)
  Note that while you must have five cards in a row for a straight flush or straight, they don’t necessarily have to be dealt to you in order. So 4-6-8-5-7 is still a straight because within your hand you have the five cards you need to have five cards in a row.
  Also, in case it wasn’t clear, a hand only qualifies for its highest rank. For example, a Royal Flush is also a straight flush, flush, and straight but is only considered to be a Royal Flush.
  How a 100-Hand Machine Works
  A 100-hand machine works by beginning with the player being dealt one hand. Every card the player holds is then held on the other 99 hands. If you look closely at the image below you will notice that at this point, the player has decided to discard the Q of Clubs and hold four cards (K-J-Q-10 of Hearts) because only the four cards being held say “HELD” at the bottom of each card. As a result, each of the 100 hands shows these four cards being held with one card that needs to be drawn.
• ImageThe 100-hand video poker machine before the first card is drawn.
• Teacher note
  Once the player presses “DRAW” each of the hundred hands is dealt the new fifth card, one at a time, from 100 separate decks. It is important to emphasize that these are separate decks. As such, just because one hand gets dealt an 8 of Hearts, the next hand still can get an 8 of Hearts as well.
  Lastly, the hundred hands are separated such that (starting at the top) there are nine rows of ten hands (90 total hands), then a row of 9, then the one at the bottom. That is a total of 100 (90 + 9 + 1).
  Since a deck of poker cards consists of 52 cards, and 5 cards have been dealt, 47 cards remain. Let’s look at each possible hand separately and remember that the player is beginning with:
  King of Hearts, Jack of Hearts, Queen of Hearts, and 10 of Hearts
• Teacher note
  Royal Flush
  Only the Ace of Hearts will give the player a Royal Flush. So, there is 1 card out of 47 remaining cards that will give her a Royal Flush. So, she has a 1 in 47 (about 2.1%) chance of getting a Royal Flush. Since there will be 100 hands and about 2.1% will be the card needed for a Royal Flush, students should expect there to be about 2 Royal Flushes.
  Straight Flush
  Similarly to the Royal Flush, only the 9 of Hearts will give the player a Straight Flush. Therefore, there is 1 card out of 47 remaining cards that will give her a Straight Flush. So, she has a 1 in 47 (about 2.1%) chance of getting a Straight Flush. Since there will be 100 hands and about 2.1% will be the card needed for a Straight Flush, students should also expect there to be about 2 Straight Flushes.
  Flush
  There are 13 cards in each suit of the deck. Four Hearts have been dealt to the player already (K-Q-J-10). An Ace or a 9 of Hearts would give the player a Royal Flush or Straight Flush, respectively. Therefore, only the remaining seven Hearts will give the player a Flush. So, there are 7 cards out of 47 remaining cards that will give her a Flush. Accordingly, she has a 7 in 47 (about 14.9%) chance of getting a Flush. Since there will be 100 hands and about 14.9% will be the card needed for a Flush, students should also expect there to be about 15 Flushes.
  Straight
  Any Ace or 9 will give the player a straight (A-K-Q-J-10 or K-Q-J-10-9). There are four Aces and four 9s. However, the Ace and 9 of Hearts will give the player a Royal Flush or Straight Flush, respectively. Therefore, only six cards remain that will give the player a Straight. So, there are 6 cards out of 47 remaining cards that will give her a Straight. Accordingly, she has a 6 in 47 (about 12.8%) chance of getting a Straight. Since there will be 100 hands and about 12.8% will be the card needed for a Straight, students should also expect there to be about 13 Straights.
  Pair of Jacks or better
  The player has already been dealt a K-Q-J-10, so another King, Queen, or Jack will give the player a pair of Jacks or better. There are four Kings, Queens, and Jacks. However, the King, Queen, and Jack of Hearts as well as the Queen of Clubs have already been dealt. Therefore, only eight cards will give the player a pair of Jacks or better. So, there are 8 cards out of 47 remaining cards that will give her a pair of Jacks or better. Accordingly, she has a 8 in 47 (about 17.02%) chance of getting a pair of Jacks or better. Since there will be 100 hands and about 17.02% will be the card needed for a pair of Jacks or better, students should also expect there to be about 17 pairs of Jacks or better.

• FileThe answer!

• Teacher note
  Depending on how you set this up, you can ask all the different hand questions at once or use some of them as a sequel.

Free Video Poker Harrah's 100

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100 Hand Video Poker Harrah's

• Are those numbers on the side indicating hands people have?

• How many different ways can you get a flush?

• What are the odds of a straight?

• How many of each hand do I expect

• Who is able to see this?

• What is it doing -- counting other people's hands?

• Why do people play these games?

• WHat is the probability of getting a straight royal flush?

• Is there a pattern?

• what did they win?

• What is the probability of getting straight? Why are there so many of them?

• How much did that cost?

• What is the game objective?

• What's the most likely hand to get in poker?

• what are the odds of 21 straits

• Are these results what we would expect?

• how many games will it take to get a straight flush

• How many hands?

• What are the odds of drawing a card that will give the player a royal flush?

• how many people got the royal flush?

• Gambling?

• vegas?

• What is the probability of getting each hand?