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Trying to calculate the odds of those two hands being dealt is really irrelevant, and it misses the significance of the video. At the time the video starts most of the X to 1 possibilities are canceled out, because neither player would be continuing unless they had good cards.

The significance of the hand is how extremely lucky both players were.

When the last card was turned over (an Ace of Diamonds) it was the best possible card for both of them. For Mabuchi it gave him the extremely rare hand of four aces, there was only one possible hand that could have beaten him, unfortunately the AD also gave Phillips that hand. A Royal flush is the rarest hand in the game.

As Mabuchi sat there after the river was turned over he wouldn't have been thinking there is only one hand that can beat me and that would make this a 1 in X billion event therefore the odds of me losing are 1 in X billion. If Phillips hadn't looked at his cards the odds would be 1 in 2162, but as I said most of those possibilities are cards that Phillips would have already folded.

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