Dear
Mark,
I have played video poker for a long time, successfully
I might add, but one hand keeps hexing me. Anytime
I get threeofakind with a need to draw two cards,
I rarely get a full house or a fourofakind. I figure
the odds of getting either hand are not overwhelming,
but I was wondering what they actually were. Calvin
H.
Cursed
or not, Calvin, drawing to a full house or a four-of-a-kind
should happen more often than once in a blue moon. In
your case, when you discard the two cards of little
value, for instance, you keep three aces and throw away
a nine of diamonds and a five of clubs, odds are you
will improve your hand to either to a full house or
four aces 10.4% of the time.
