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The odds of getting 4 of a kind (a.k.a ‘Quads’) are one in 4165. There are 624 combinations of cards that make up four of a kind out of 2,598,960 possible hands. How do we derive these 624 combinations?
13 X 48 = 624
Pretty simple really, 13 is the different numbered cards while the 48 is the number of other cards available after 4 of a kind take up the first four positions of a 5 card poker hand.
The King of Quads
I played a lot of poker on PokerStars yesterday.. then something VERY unexpected happened involving quads:
PokerStars Game #10185323318: Tournament #51613170, $10+$1 Hold’em No Limit - Level VI (100/200) - 2007/05/30 - 15:28:42 (ET)
Table ‘51613170 3′ 9-max Seat #7 is the button
Seat 1: sunnyQBEE (2460 in chips)
Seat 2: DiAngelA (1575 in chips)
Seat 4: Janni1981 (2900 in chips)
Seat 5: Chiefs Money (2700 in chips)
Seat 6: Nightstare (4645 in chips)
Seat 7: bartje73 (7480 in chips)
Seat 9: alexrossUKGF (1330 in chips)
alexrossUKGF: posts small blind 100
sunnyQBEE: posts big blind 200
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to alexrossUKGF [K♣ K♠]
DiAngelA: folds
Janni1981: folds
Chiefs Money: folds
Nightstare: folds
bartje73: folds
alexrossUKGF: calls 100
sunnyQBEE: raises 200 to 400
alexrossUKGF: calls 200
*** FLOP *** [J♠ K♦ K♥]
alexrossUKGF: checks
sunnyQBEE: bets 1200
alexrossUKGF said, “ok i’ll call :)”
alexrossUKGF: calls 930 and is all-in
*** TURN *** [J♠ K♦ K♥] [6♥]
*** RIVER *** [J♠ K♦ K♥ 6♥] [A♠]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
alexrossUKGF: shows [Kc Ks] (four of a kind, Kings)
..then the VERY NEXT HAND I was dealt the following hand (I was multi-tabling):
PokerStars Game #10185349513: Tournament #51614520, $10+$1 Hold’em No Limit - Level IV (50/100) - 2007/05/30 - 15:30:22 (ET)
Table ‘51614520 17′ 9-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: mad77222 (3230 in chips)
Seat 2: DTwester (3680 in chips)
Seat 3: OTT CANADA (1605 in chips)
Seat 4: SweetV123 (2215 in chips)
Seat 5: msm89dk (2020 in chips)
Seat 6: Sabaka (1790 in chips)
Seat 7: RiskyLisky (4375 in chips)
Seat 8: alexrossUKGF (1700 in chips)
Seat 9: Mentosan (1815 in chips)
Sabaka: posts small blind 50
RiskyLisky: posts big blind 100
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to alexrossUKGF [K♦ K♥]
alexrossUKGF: raises 100 to 200
Mentosan: folds
mad77222: folds
DTwester: folds
OTT CANADA: folds
SweetV123: folds
msm89dk: raises 1820 to 2020 and is all-in
Sabaka: folds
RiskyLisky: folds
alexrossUKGF: calls 1500 and is all-in
*** FLOP *** [3♥ K♠ J♦]
*** TURN *** [3♥ K♠ J♦] [K♣]
*** RIVER *** [3♥ K♠ J♦ K♣] [J♣]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
alexrossUKGF: shows [Kd Kh] (four of a kind, Kings)
msm89dk: shows [Js Jh] (four of a kind, Jacks)
msm89dk said, “LOOOOOOOOOOOOL”
alexrossUKGF collected 3550 from pot
Sabaka said, “wow”
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 3550 | Rake 0
The odds of hitting Quads? 624 to 1. The odds of doing it twice in a row?
624*624= 389376 to 1! God only knows what the odds of Quads V Quads is.. I wonder if stars has a bad-beat jackpot! 
probably only in cash games..
I thought I was lucky in the past when dealt aces in consecutive hands.. Has anything like this ever happened to you???