I played Texas Hold'em poker Friday night with some friends. This was a relatively mundane evening with no exceptional happenings until I walked away from a hand I had just folded. When I returned to the hand everyone was standing up talking about it. It turns out four of the seven players each were dealt King-Jack of the same suit. The players were all amazed at about how unusual this was and how they had never, in a combined 50+ years of playing poker, seen such an improbable hand. All of the KJs hands were beat by a pair of fours. I was not sure what this all meant, and since I was not in on the round I figured it did not necessarily pertain to me anyway.
BTW: the number of possible hands in a seven player game is ≈1.2674 x 10^17 (more than 126 quadrillion) and I believe the probability of this hand is approx 1 in 832 Billion.
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