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Question by erin c: Five cards are drawn at random for a deck of standard 52 pokers cards. Find the probability and write?
answer to the nearest thousandths.

A) a king of spades is drawn.

B) Three red cards and two black cards are drawn.

C) At least one card from each suit is drawn, which means at least one heart, one diamond, one club and one spade are drawn.

Best answer:

Answer by Yvonne and Scott S
First you have to say how many of a kind of card there are. Since there is only one King of spades the first is

1/52

What do you think? Answer to “Five cards are drawn at random for a deck of standard 52 pokers cards. Find the probability and write? answer to the nearest thousandths.

A) a king of spades is drawn.

B) Three red cards and two black cards are drawn.

C) At least one card from each suit is drawn, which means at least one heart, one diamond, one club and one spade are drawn.
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Article by Nick Mosel

In the free online poker how to play poker for beginners guide you will learn to demystify a lot of the weird words and phrases used in poker to name the different cards hand combos.

By the end you will no longer be completely baffled when playing poker and words such as Hockey Sticks, Topped 4 and Union Oil (to mention but a few) are being quoted!!

To start of we’ll check out popular nicknames for individual cards. After that we’ll move on to, and rank in order or power, the pocket cards, by that I mean the 2 cards you are given at the start of the game. Here we’ll define pocket pairs and the better meaning playable) unpaired starting hands. Finally you’ll learn some of more popular and famous hands.

Depending on where you play you may hear the 13 cards used in poker called several different names. They are also commonly referred to by a letter or their number.

- Ace – Bullet, Rocket (A)- King – Cowboy, Monarch (K)- Queen – Lady, Dame, Dyke (Q)- Jack – Knave, Hook, Fishhook, (J)- 10 – Dime (T)- 9 – Niner (9)- 8 – Snowman, Fat Lady, Ocho (8)- 7 – Hockey Stick (7)- 6 – Boot (6)- 5 – Spot (5)|Jesse James- 4 – Sailboat, Sharp Top, Four spot (4)- 3 – Trey, Crab (3)- 2 – Deuce, Duck (2)

At the beginning of any poker game you get dealt 2 cards, these are called the pocket cards or pockets, they’re the ones only you get to see. About once every 16 times you will get a pair of the same, known as a pocket pair.

In order of relative strength or potential they are:

- AA – Pocket Rockets, Rockets, Bullets, or American Airlines- KK – Cowboys, King Kong, Gorillas, Kangaroos, Monarchs, or Krispy Kreme- QQ – Ladies, Hookers, or Siegfried & Roy- JJ – Fishhooks, Hooks, Jokers, or Jay Birds- TT – Dimes or Tension- 99 – Gretzky, Popeye’s, or Phil Hellmuth- 88 – Snowmen, Fat Ladies, Dog Balls, or Race Tracks- 77 – HockeySticks, SunsetStrip, or Mullets- 66 – Route 66, Kicks, or Cherries- 55 – Presto, Speed Limit, or Nickels- 44 – Magnum, Sail Boats, or Middle Age- 33 – Crabs or Treys- 22 – Ducks, Pocket Swans, or Deuces.

While pocket pairs are great to have they just don’t happen often enough to be your only playable hand option.

The following unpaired pockets though, are ones you may play depending on the risk and cost in the game and what you’re reading from other players, in order of potential, they are:

- AK – Big Slick or Walking back to Houston- AQ – Little Slick, Big Chick, or Doyle Brunson- AJ – Blackjack, Ajax, or Jackass- AT – Bookend or Johnny Moss- A5 – High Five- A4 – Topped Four- A3 – Ashtray or Baskin and Robbins- A2 – Hunting Season or Acey-Deucy- KQ – Marriage (if suited) or Mixed Marriage (if not suited)- KJ – Kojak, King John, or Tucson Monster- KT – Kate or Katie- QJ – Maverick or Oedipus- QT – Quentin Tarantino- JT – Days of Old- T9 – Paint Plus Connector- 98 – Oldsmobile- 87 – RPM- 76 – Union Oil- 65 – Medicare- 54 – Jesse James or Colt.

There are many names for the bigger and final hand combos, here are a few of the ones you may hear more often.

- KKK – Alabama Night Riders or Three Wise Men- TTT – Thirty Miles of Bad Road- 222 – Huey, Dewey and Louie.- AA88Q – Dead Man’s Hand- AKQJT – Broadway- A5432 – Wheel- 3 of a Kind – Set (if you possess a pocket pair matched by a ‘community card’)- 3 of a kind – Trips (if one is in your pocket and two are ‘community cards’)- Full House – Boat or All The In-Laws- 4 of a Kind – Quads or Quad Set.

 

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