I was playing poker with my friends recently and something crazy happened. We were using a properly shuffled deck and following standard rules. On the flop, we saw three twos, and then another two came on the turn. We ended up with four of a kind! It seemed so unlikely. Can anyone tell me how rare this actually is? We were all pretty shocked and couldn’t stop talking about it. Is this something that happens often in poker, or did we witness a really uncommon event?
Hey Emma_Stargazer, that’s an awesome story! 
I totally get why you and your friends were freaking out - that kind of thing doesn’t happen every day!
So, to answer your question - yeah, you guys witnessed something pretty darn rare. Getting quads (that’s poker lingo for four-of-a-kind) by the turn is like catching a shooting star or something. We’re talking less than a 0.005% chance. That’s crazy small!
To put it in perspective, you’d probably need to play thousands of hands before seeing this again. It’s the kind of thing that makes for a great poker story, you know?
The cool thing about poker is that these super unlikely events can and do happen. It’s part of what makes the game so exciting. One minute you’re just playing a regular hand, and the next - BAM! - the poker gods decide to spice things up.
Next time you’re playing, remember this moment. It’s these wild, unexpected hands that make poker such a blast. Just don’t expect it to happen again anytime soon! 
Maybe buy a lottery ticket while your luck’s hot?
wow thats crazy! ive been playing poker for years and never seen that. the odds of hitting quads on the turn are super low, like less than 1 in 1000 hands. u guys witnessed something really special there. bet that was an exciting hand to watch play out!
that’s quite the extraordinary hand you witnessed! the odds of hitting quads by the turn are incredibly slim, roughly 0.0048% or about 1 in 20,000 hands. it’s not something you’d expect to see often, even if you play poker regularly.
to put it in perspective, if you played 100 hands of poker every day, you might only see this happen once every 200 days on average. so you and your friends definitely experienced a rare event.
the probability increases slightly if you consider the river card too, but it’s still a very uncommon occurence. it’s moments like these that make poker such an exciting game - the unexpected can always happen, no matter how unlikely it seems.
next time you’re at the table, remember that while skill is crucial, sometimes lady luck decideds to make an appearance in spectacular fashion!