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Message: [QUOTE="Four Dogs, post: 897634, member: 2668"] [ I assume you're asking about this. Whenever your dealing with statistics and probability, your dealing with uncertain outcomes. Although you can never be certain of an exact outcome you can still predict it's likelyhood of occuring. [B]Expectation[/B] is just that, the likelyhood of an uncertain events occurance. In the above post, appstatepkr77 used the term [I][B]supposed[/B] [B]to[/B][/I] and I corrected him. In my opinion, [I][B]supposed to[/B][/I] instead of [I][B]expected to[/B][/I] implies that there's something wrong with the software or random number generator if you don't get exactly the number calculated as the expected value. Statistically, we can calculate exactly how likely a pocket pair like AA is to occur in a given number of hand, its [I][B]frequency[/B][/I], but it is very rare that that exact expectation will actually happen. In fact, I wouldn't bet on it. [/QUOTE]