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The probability of one particular person having exactly the pocket pair when you have already seen 2 of the cards after the flop is (2/47)(1/46) which is about .00093 or about 1/10 of one percent. In the case of QQ, you can be assured that anyone holding QQ before the flop is in the flop now, so really you want the odds of anyone holding QQ before the flop. This is approximately 9 times greater with a full table, so realistically there is close to a 1% chance of it happening. It is no fun for this to happen, and it is extremely unlikely, and usually a bad idea to assume your opponent has this hand because of the thin odds. In the particular hand you cited, it is far more likely they hold a different set, but you are just as dead. One of the few times you can spot this happening to you is if you have AK and the other guy has AA or KK and makes a sizable raise pre-flop. The flop comes with an A and a K and you make a big bet and he goes all in. If you have a strong read on this player that he only raises big preflop with KK or AA, you can safely fold (of course if you had this read on him you should have folded preflop!). A strong read is better than pure odds.
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