# Unlikely coincidences you have experienced **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 2, 2022, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unlikely-coincidences-you-have-experienced/970790 "2022-09-02T05:07:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 29
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2022, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unlikely-coincidences-you-have-experienced/970790/29 "2022-09-03T13:03:11Z")
During a game of Texas Hold’em, I once got pocket aces\* three times in four consecutive hands. [My fellow dopers tell me](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poker-odds-question/921106) the chance of that happening is 1 in 2.7 million. Although the odds increase the more hands I play. About 20 years ago I spent 3 months wandering aimlessly around Europe, drifting from city to city, spend a couple of days there before moving on. There was a ferry from Italy to Greece traveling overnight. While waiting I fell in with a bunch of other people doing the same as I was. There was a Mexican couple on their honeymoon, a few Australians, and another Brit or two. We traveled together as a group to Athens, and then to Santorini, before splitting up and going in different directions. A few weeks later, I was wandering aimlessly through Amsterdam. I heard someone calling my name, and turned around, and there were the Mexican couple. We were all amazed. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unlikely-coincidences-you-have-experienced/970790)._