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Old 08-25-2004, 01:49 AM   #5
Pumpy Tudors
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Suicane75
But, say my first card is a 2, there are 51 possible hands with that.
So wouldn't it be 13 * 51= 663?

No, if your first card is a specific 2, there are 51 possible hands with that. Since there are 4 2's in a deck, then the total is 4 * 13 * 51 == 2652, unless you don't care in which order the cards are dealt, as stated earlier.
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