Today's Contest...
 

I'm going to ask a simple poker question in this thread sometime today. The first person to post the correct answer will win. Simple enough?

And yes, there will be a cash prize.

Today's "money" question is going to have to do with counting outs. It will not be posted for at least a few hours (to give people a chance to see this).

Here's a warmup question, just for fun. No money prize here, just bragging rights: Exactly how many different combinations of turn/river cards are there in a Heads Up situation in Hold'Em?

In other words, if someone needs to hit perfect-perfect runner-runner to make a straight flush (for example), what are their chances?

Never mind :(

990 possible turns/rivers

.1% to make the runner runner SF

or 989:1

It would be 1/47 * 1/46 would it not?

The chances of hitting runner-runner would be 1/47*46/2, or
1/1,081?

I used 47 and 46 since opponents 2 cards are unknown.

(45 possible turn cards*44 possible river cards)/2 (to account for the same two cards in reverse order)= 990 (possible two cards combinations)

7 cards are already out after the flop

if...
 

...someone says something like "well, on 'river' stars it happens once out of every two or three hands" or "well, on Party Poker its about 20%" might i suggest a 30 minute ban from the forum??

Blibbity's answer and explanation is correct.

And I like bdawg's suggestion too! :D

If a correct answer to the $ Question is posted (and not edited) in LESS than 5 minutes from the time I post the question, the winner will get $20.

If it takes 5 minutes or more for the correct answer to be posted, the winner will receive $10.

Either way, I'll transfer the money to your account.

The official question will be posted sometime tonight between 8 PM and 12 AM ET. I'll post a smaller time range later.

I hope you know your outs!

Umm... I was told there'd be no math.

eheh.

I saw 11 responses and thought i was too late... guess not

same here - this is exciting - too bad i am goin to a concert tonight and will miss the chance. I bet blibbity wins tho - he wins every freakin money contest ever.

lol :D

What's an out? -twiddles his thumbs-

TP, does this kinda stuff also add towards the post count?

ROFLMAO!!

what time u think this ? is goin down??

yeah, i want $20 dollars. Give me the question!

Am I really going to have to wait until midnight :( .

Im not! IM so tired! CAn u just give it to us please talking poker?

Please! Im so tired but i don't want to wait!

I've got 48 to go, so expect 4 of these a day until the freeroll starts ;)

lol, i can see ur trying hard! LOL

The first and fourth entries below the diagram should help.




See how easy? I'm at 2k+!!!!!

Y u guys talking about football at a time like this?

Wow, I've never seen baseball played like that.

-- Now bring on the question!

thats football and yes bring on the question

Okay here it is:

4 noobs + utter desperation + A forum leader who taketh no shit = ???????

This made me LOL. That's some good stuff. :D

I ended up being gone all day - sorry about that.... wasn't planning to when I came up with the idea for this little contest.

I'll post the actual $ question sometime right around 11:00 ET. Stay tuned!

lol are countdown and mad cow disease the same person?

I would have guessed there are about 6 of him that have joined this week (And no BDMK, I'm not lumping you in there). This freeroll thing definitely has it's pros and cons...

u guys talk alot about nubes but all u guys have like 3000 posts haha u make me laugh DORKS i got on here for free money nto to get talked down to by someone living in there parents basement...........

lol JJ... yes some people do have more than 1000 post but look at the avg post per day.

like me for example... I only avg 4 post a day... that could be like 10 minutes a day on this forum... it doesnt take much to be a contributing member of the forum.

PS: JJ, your the fag joining a site looking for a ONE HUNDRED DOLLAR freeroll... are you that broke? Your mom wont let you deposit?

TP, you are getting alot of jackasses with this freeroll... luckily most of the people will be the forum regulars.

And well play poker well enough to not have to scour the internet for free money.

Do the math nigga.

HEy wait a minute I live in my own basement and a wear an tin foil hat to keep the donkeys from finding me :o

Easy, fellas. No need to stoop to JJ's name calling level. And don't worry, he won't be getting any free money from me.

I'm pushing this back to 11:15ish.

Time check.

Yes... very, very soon now, my friends! :D

Ok, kids - thanks for being patient with me today.... here's the money question.....


Situation: Texas Hold Em. Two players in the hand. There are four cards on the board, with only the river card left to come.

Describe a situation where the hand that is currently winning can NEVER win the pot after the river card is dealt. More specifically, in the situation I am looking for, the currently losing hand has exactly 19 outs to win and 25 to tie (there are 44 unknown cards in the deck).

To answer this question correctly, you need to post both players' hole cards and the four cards on the board. Don't forget to include suits. Format your answer like this:

AsKs vs. 8h8d
Board shows JcTc2h2d

Please note that I just made up that answer and it is most certainly wrong (the AK has 6 outs to win and 0 to tie), but that's the format you need to use to answer this.

20 bucks to the winner if the correct, unedited answer is posted in LESS than 5 minutes from right now, using post timestamps. $10 otherwise. GL!

JJphenom is one of the password sellers i see around stars hawking his stuff...

he just couldnt wait to out himself. :D

Tick...... tock...... tick...... tock......

This is great!

:D

Edit: Looks like we're gonna be down to $10 if we don't get an answer awfully soon! If that happens, I'll run another $10 contest shortly... ;)

What the hell do you mean? He gets freeroll passwords and sells them?

Yes, there are actually people who stoop this low.

It's true.

:confused: :confused: :confused: :confused:

I have absolutely no idea, it seems impossible :mad:

Come on, brotha! I have faith in you.

Guess I should have made a bigger 5 minute prize or else given 15 minutes to come up with it.

This is definitely not an easy question...

Hmmmmm, pay for a code for a $100 freeroll with who knows how many players or buy into a SNG with actual EV?

duh.

player1 akhh
player2 aqss

board kh,10h,js,9s

board is 5c5s6c6s

hand 1 7s,8s

hand 2 7d 9h

79 is ahead and can only tie

Crap. Now you guys are going to make me figure all this out (since these aren't the exact answers I had come up with).... ok, let's see here............