Texas hold ’em In the popular Texas hold ’em variety of poker, players make their best five-card poker hand by combining the two cards they are dealt with three of five cards available to all players. You read in a book on poker that if you hold a pair (two cards of the same rank) in your hand, the probability of getting four of a kind is 88/1000.

(a) Explain what this probability means.

(b) If you play 1000 such hands, will you get four of a kind in exactly 88 of them? Explain.