Three-card straight from an eight-deck shoe
Question
Eight standard 52-card decks are shuffled together into one shoe of cards, and three cards are dealt at random. What is the probability that they form a three-card straight (three consecutive ranks, with the ace allowed low as in A-2-3 or high as in Q-K-A) but not a straight flush?
Short answer
. There are rank runs, each rank appearing times in the shoe, giving straights. Subtract the single-suit ones to get , then divide by .
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- Counting and Combinatorics
- Continuous Random Variables and Probability Density Functions
- Cumulative Distribution Functions
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