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[Cbiffs]

How do the odds work when using two or more alternating decks? Would you be twice as likely to land a pocket pair if your using two decks? Or hit flushes twice as often when using two decks?

[nsidestrate]

Assuming you are talking about the standard poker practice of using the red deck for a hand and then the blue deck for the next hand and so on, it has absolutely no effect on the odds whatsoever. If you have invented a new game played with two decks shuffled together, it would have some subtle changes, but very small ones.

[kbrkal]

In texas holdem there is no change. However if you play casino games such as blackjack then there defiantly is a change in odds when there are more decks in the shoe.