What are your odds of dating a supermodel?

The ability to quickly calculate odds is considered by some to be one of the more important skills possessed by the best poker players. What are the odds you’ll flop a set with your pair of ducks, 22? Quack quack, it’s 8.5 to 1 of course. How about the odds of flopping a flush when holding 2 suited cards? Why, isn’t that 117.7 to 1?

Our resident geeks have even introduced a cool PPP Odds Calculator to crunch those pesky numbers for you while you’re playing the game of your choice, which makes it easy for those of us who play 6 tables at a time while simultaneously surfing the internet, changing the baby and watching the footie! Click here to download the PPP Odds Calculator - authorization code blogodds is valid until the end of February.

But how many of you think about the other odds that could impact your life? The odds of being on a plane with a drunken pilot are only 117 to 1 – now tell me that doesn’t scare all you jet-setters! The odds of causing injury to yourself while engaged in your daily (or monthly, if you are a true cigar-chomping, whiskey-swilling Hold ‘em player) shave are a mere 6,585 to 1.

And the odds of dating a supermodel? Well, for the masses it is 88,000 to 1; luckily, that number is much, much, MUCH lower for those of us working on the Poker floor in the gleaming Paddy Tower. Oi! Gisele, Heidi, come ‘ere, giz us another backrub…

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