Pick Balls with Unequal Probabilities

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There are some balls with 4 different colors in a black box. The ratio of A color ball is 10%, B is 20%, C is 30% and D is 40%.

The rule of this game is that you randomly pick one ball and mark the color of this ball then throw it back to the box.

The Question is: When you already have marked 2 different color balls, what is the probability of that the next time you pick one ball is the same color with the previous 2 colors (P22), and is different with previous 2 colors (P23).

Here is what I thought: Use Markov matrix to solve the problem, the states are AB AC AD BC BD CD ABC ABD BCD ACD, so we can build a $10 * 10$ matrix T: $$AB->AB = 0.3, AB->AC=0.0 ... AB->ABC=0.3, AB->ABD=0.4$$ etc.

calc: $$\lim_{n\to\infty} {T}^n$$ I am not sure this method is correct.

Is this a Poisson Process?