3x pocket rockets in a row

tomatientje · Apr 14, 2026

Every few hundred hands, you might get rockets in your pocket, maybe even in the very next hand. But have you ever hit them three times in a row?

stil370 · Apr 14, 2026

i wonder what those odds are?

dreamer13 · Apr 14, 2026

I had it twice in a row.The odds of getting three aces in a row are about 10.8 million to 1. The odds are 50/50 in both cases. You either get pocket aces or you don't. And you either win or lose, so the odds are 50/50.

tomatientje · Apr 17, 2026

stil370 said:
i wonder what those odds are?

How to calculate the 10.8‑million‑to‑one odds that Dreamer13 mentioned:

There are 52 cards in the deck and 4 of them are aces. To be dealt pocket aces, both cards you receive must be aces. The chance that your first card is an ace is 4/52, and the chance that your second card is an ace is 3/51. For the next hand, the same calculation applies again, and so on.

So the odds are:

52×51×52×51×52×51 ÷ 4 ÷ 3 ÷ 4 ÷ 3 ÷ 4 ÷ 3 = 10,793,861.

veszmo · Apr 17, 2026

Yes, this has happened to me before, although it was a long time ago. It could happen again!

austral · Apr 17, 2026

But in practice, if you play thousands or millions of hands, often across multiple tables at the same time, the chances of this happening at least once increase significantly.

In other words:
It’s not 1 in 10 million in your lifetime.
It’s 1 in 10 million for each specific sequence of 3 hands.

margmilo44 · Apr 17, 2026

did you turn it into $$$$$?

G0930 · Apr 17, 2026

tomatientje said:
Every few hundred hands, you might get rockets in your pocket, maybe even in the very next hand. But have you ever hit them three times in a row?

Never hit them 3 times in a row but 2 times on multiple ocassions

hobojim1247 · Apr 17, 2026

I have not had it happen to me, but It did happen in a game I was in at Soaring eagle Casino in Mt Pleasant, Mi.back in 2008 in a 3-6 limit game.

Roller · Apr 19, 2026

Poker has a funny way of producing those “no way that just happened” moments:

aajfilho · Apr 19, 2026

I just played Blast at 888 poker, it was heads up and my opponent and I were dealt pocket aces and we tried to slow play each other.

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