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[QUOTE="kaiWalk, post: 900867, member: 24918"]
There are only 2,652 unique starting hands, therefore your chances of being dealt consecutive duplicates is 1:2,652.  Add the 1:2 odds of hitting the same order & your odds are 1:5,304, or 0.0188% of the time.  Every 5,300 hands, you should expect to see this.

Despite Nek's assertion, those odds are much thinner then getting consecutive A's.  AA occurs 1:220 or 4.5% of the time.  In other words, each time you get dealt AA, you have a 4.5% chance of catching it the next hand.

You probably have received consecutive duplicate hands previously, but there are many hands that don't require much scrutiny to lay down.  I know that I have received 72o consecutively and never looked close enough to determine if they matched.

Poker is a game of probabilities.  Situations like these remind us that after hitting  1:5,304, an opponent catching the "miracle" 1 outer on the river (1:44) isn't really that unheard of.

Edit:  Just noticed your post count vs. the AA poster.  Guess much of the above was old news to you.
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