I'm trying to learn Bayes's formula, and am coming up with some poker problems to learn this.
My problem is as following: given a $H4,H5$ ($4$ of hearts, $5$ of hearts) hand, what are the odds that I'll hit a straight flush?
My reasoning is like this:
$$\Pr(\text{straight flush}|H4H5) = (\Pr(H4H5|\text{straight flush}) \cdot \Pr(\text{straight flush})) / \Pr(H4H5)$$
Now, off of wikipedia, I learnt that:
$$P(\text{straight flush}) = 0.00139$$
Given that there are 36 ways to achieve a straight flush, and only 4 ways to have a straight flush with $H4,H5$ (namely $HA-H5, H2-6, H3-7, H4-8$), I calculated that:
$$\Pr(H4H5|\text{straight flush}) = 4/36 = 1/9$$
Now, how do we find $\Pr(H4H5)$? My reasoning was: There's a $2/52$ chance that we get dealt $H4$ or $H5$ as the first card, and then a $1/51$ chance that we get dealt $H4$ or $H5$ as the second card.
However, filling out those numbers says there is a 15% chance that this will happen. That numbers seems way to high to me. Surely, somewhere in my reasoning I'm making a mistake. Who can help?
Hint: You still have three cards to draw out of $50$. How many combinations of three cards result in a straight flush? How many total draws are there?