Quote (Segfault @ Sep 4 2013 01:16pm)

Do you get why the original deck only has 4 types of flushes disregarding card value?
If we disregard card value, we only see spades, diamonds, etc. So there are only 4 different types of flushes.  One flush of only spades, one flush of only diamonds, etc.


now let's label the suites in your weird deck
spades1
spades2 (the set of "copies" of the spades cards, since there are two of every card)
diamonds1
diamonds2
etc.

So spades1 has one flush by itself (a flush of all spades1). So do all the other suites. That makes 8 flushes disregarding card value.
However, we can also mix spades1 and spades2 for a flush.

1 spades1, 4 spades2
2 spades1, 3 spades2
3 spades1, 2 spades2
4 spades1, 1 spades2

That's 4 "mixed" flushes. This goes for the other suite pairs as well, making a total of 16 "mixed" flushes.
16+8 = 24 flushes disregarding card value

I treat the spades1 and spades2 as seperate suites to reflect that it is easier to draw flushes than it would've been if there was only 1 copy of each card.

Quote (furbyjs @ Sep 4 2013 03:28pm)

That actually makes a lot more sense, thank you.
Is the 8 you're adding coming from possible non-mixed flushes?