Online Poker Tips

Did you know that the original title of Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire was The Poker Night– in other words, things don’t always turn out how they’re planned. It’s best to know your odds before hitting your favorite online casino:

–Assuming a five-card game, there are 2,598,960 possible poker hands that can be dealt from a standard 52-card deck.

–The odds against drawing a royal flush are 649,740 to 1.

–The odds against drawing one pair are 2.4 to 1. The odds against drawing no pair are 2 to 1.

–The probability that a six-sided die will show the same number following eight repeated tosses is 1 out of 1,679,616.

Want to know the odds outside of online betting?:

–Comparatively, men have slightly less than a 1 in 4 chance of engaging in a menage a trois at some point in their lives. For women, the odds are 7 in 100.

–If you make between $25,001 and $49,999 per year, you have 0.58 percent chance of being audited by the IRS.

–If you make more than $100,000 per year, this chance nearly triples to 1.65 percent.

–Do taxes have you so frustrated you could kill someone? The annual on-the-job homicide rate of bartenders and sales clerks is .0055 percent, just under that that of police and detectives, at .0056 percent. However, taxi drivers are murdered at more than four times that rate, coming in at .0227 percent..

–Oh, and your crime doesn’t have to be that perfect. Only 58 percent of all reported murders end in a conviction.

–But who do you have to kill to get into the Ivy League? At Harvard, only 11 percent of applicants are admitted. Better try Yale, which admits 16 percent of applicants, or if you prefer shorter odds (and don’t mind leaving the east coast), try Berkeley, which admits a whopping 25 percent of applicants.

–You could always try your luck overseas. Oxford University admits nearly 25 percent of applying undergraduates. However, in the spirit of liberte, egalite et fraternite, the Sorbonne in Paris is open to almost anyone with a high school diploma– leaving you free to try your hand at poker en ligne.

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Posted at : July 16th, 2008 - 10:32 am
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