In poker, making an inside straight requires you to catch one of 4 cards out of 48 remaining in the deck, the chances of which are about 8 percent.

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Khandush is not one of the 55 most-wanted Iraqis from the deck of cards listing the top regime figures sought by the United States, but he is named on a longer, unpublished list of wanted Iraqi leaders.

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From an American perspective, Alfa Romeo is one of the wild cards that got thrown into the deck when Fiat acquired the carcass of Chrysler from the U.S. government in 2009.

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Had Mexico stamped its most-wanted list on a deck of playing-cards like the one used in Iraq, the pack would now look a lot thinner.

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In one episode, he gets many volunteers to look through a deck of cards for the card they started with.

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