Poker Video: Omaha/Omaha 8 by danzasmack (Micro/Small Stakes)

Hope you guys find this episode informative, no spoilers for the last question in the thread please!

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Thanks for covering this stuff! I know it's dry but it's so very important to understanding what's going on in postgame analysis.

I find this calculation more intuitive, but different people learn different ways:

1st card: any of 24 cards of rank 3 thru 8.
2nd card: any of 20 that aren't the same rank as the 1st.
3rd card: any of 16 that aren't the same rank as either of the 1st two.

24 * 20 * 16 = 1280 permutations of 3 low cards of different rank.

Because order doesn't matter to us, we need to divide by the number of ways to order three cards, which itself is a number of permutations: 3! = 6

7680 / 6 = 1280

(Don't other DC videos like Mathematics of Poker cover the general, non-O8 combinatorics in detail? I pretty much know this stuff but others might want to hunt that down.)

As far as I know it hasn't been covered (asked around a bit, even though I don't remember seeing anything with it)

Yeah, some people's brains will definitely work in different ways on this. Honestly, I used to take a very "patchwork" approach to problems like these and found that just approaching them all the same gave me a lot more consistency/ended up saving me a lot of time - so I generally approach things like this with a list/calculate method like I used in this video.