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[QUOTE="RammerJammer, post: 325370, member: 2090"]
Ok, this is the last bit of energy I'm going to devote to this discussion.  First of all, I don't know or care about the dice roll thing.  I'm not even sure where that came into the conversation.  Except that there are six sides to a die.  And your chances of rolling any side one time is 1/6.  And the chances of rolling the same side twice in a row is 1/36.

Secondly, I didn't write the books on statistics and probabilities.  If you wish to look at every card hand dealt as an individual event, standing on its own, then the odds of being dealt any one card in the deck is 1 in 52.  If you want to view each and every poker hand as an individual event, then the odds remain 1 in 52.

But that's not the question here.  The question we are asking is, 'What are the odds of that event happening twice in a row?'  The scientifically accepted means of arriving at that answer has been explained here ad nauseum, which is that you multiply the odds of the first event times itself.  You can't "forget multiplying".  It's like saying 2 plus 2 does NOT equal four, so "forget adding".  Look it up for yourselves!  Why stay ignorant about it?  Unless you think that the entire field of mathematics is bogus, in which case we're all wasting our breath.

As far as that goes, believe it or don't.  It doesn't change the laws of probability any more than not believing that an anvil will fall to earth if dropped from your roof changes the law of gravity.  I'm done here.  Over and out!
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