Unusual Hands in Card Games As a final example of unlikely coincidences, consider a card game such as bridge, in which a standard 52-card deck is dealt to four players, so they each receive 13 cards. Any specific set of 13 cards is equally likely, each with a probability of about 1 in 635 billion. You would probably not be surprised to get a mixed hand, say, the 4, 7, and 10 of hearts; 3, 8, 9, and jack of spades; 2 and queen of diamonds; and 6, 10, jack, and ace of clubs. Yet that specific hand is just as unlikely as getting all 13 hearts! The point is that any very specific event, surprising or not, has extremely low probability, but there are many, many surprising events, and their combined probability is quite high.