Poker can be a fun card game for the family, or a serious competitive game in which the steaks can be so enormous, even selling your house wouldn’t cover the costs.
There are many variations of poker, with Texas Hold ’Em being the most popular worldwide.
Below are a whole bunch of poker facts and statistics which help you understand the chances of wining and the odds of getting the cards you want.
The goal of a Texas hold’em game is to use your hole card and in combination with the community cards to make the best possible five-card poker hand. Hold’em is not unlike other poker games like. 7 out of 52 means, that although you build your hand using 5 cards, you still have 7 cards from which to choose these 5. In the case of Texas Hold’em, there’s the 2 pocket cards and 5 on the board. There are actually 1,326 combinations of starting hands if you count suits (e.g. A♣-A♦ and A♠-A♥ are different hands), but that is more of a “just for fun” number as suits have no value over each other in Texas Hold’em.
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A pocket pair is cards of the same rank, which means if your two cards have the same number, from 2–2 all the way up to A-A, this is called a pocket pair.
- The odds of receiving any pocket pair is 5.9% which is 16 to 1. These are also the same odds of receiving a pocket pair of 2’s.
- The odds of receiving a specific pocket pair: 0.45% or 220 to 1 These are the same odds for receiving a pocket pair of A’s.
- The odds of receiving a pocket pair of A’s twice in a row is 0.002047% or 48,840 to 1.
- The odds of receiving a pocket pair of K’s is 0.9% which is 220 to 1.
- The odds of receiving a pocket pair of Q’s is 1.4% which is 73 to 1.
- The odds of receiving a pocket pair of J’s is 1.8% which is 54 to 1.
- The odds of receiving a pocket pair of 10’s is 2.3% which is 43 to 1.
- The odds of receiving a pocket pair of 9’s is 2.7% which is 36 to 1.
- The odds of receiving a pocket pair of 8’s is 3.2 which is 31 to 1.
- The odds of receiving a pocket pair of 7’s is 3.6% which is 27 to 1.
- The odds of receiving a pocket pair of 6’s is 4.1% which is 24 to 1.
- The odds of receiving a pocket pair of 5’s is 4.5% which is 21 to 1.
- The odds of receiving a pocket pair of 4’s is 5.0% which is 19 to 1.
- The odds of receiving a pocket pair of 3’s is 5.4% which is 17 to 1.
Poker Fast Facts
The total number of possible royal flush hands in a standard 52 card deck is 4.
Number Of Starting Hands In Texas Holdem
And the odds of making a royal flush is 649,739 to 1.
This is correct assuming that every game plays to the river.
In poker terms, the river is the name for the fifth card dealt, face-up on the board.
In total, there are 2,598,960 possible poker hands with 52 cards.
The odds of getting four of a kind in Texas Hold ’Em is 4164 to 1.
Casinos normally change decks after 15 minutes of steady play, so that the cards can always be fresh and unmarked, as many professional players would be able to remember the certain markings on cards and use that to their advantage.
This is only a basic overview of poker odds, there are many calculators online that can help solve the odds of getting certain hands, depending on what stage of the game you’re at, what cards you currently hold and how many people are playing.
Now you are familiar with these odds, you can use them to your advantage for a better poker strategy when you finally decided to play a tournament.
In Texas Hold-Em Poker the odds of making a royal flush hand is only 649,739 to 1.
Real Money Poker Games » Texas Holdem Poker » Flop Occurrence Probabilities
The occurrence probabilities of the different types of Holdem flops can be a little confusing because about half of the possible flops contain more than one of the types that are shown. Since each set of properties is counted on its own and compared individually to the 22,100 possible three card combinations, the total of all the various flops far exceeds the number of possible combinations.
The typical flop shown in the illustration above is good example. This one contains two of our properties. These are ‘Two High Card Denominations’ and ‘Two Cards Suited’. This particular flop would then be counted twice — once for each of the two categories contained.
‘High Cards’ here are 10, J, Q, K, and Ace.
Number Of Possible Hands In Texas Hold’em
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Possible Hands In Texas Holdem
NOTE: All the flop type calculations are based on a complete 52 card deck with no hands dealt.
