The chances of flopping two pair are rare, only about 2%, and – unless the flop has some flush or straight-making possibilities, you will likely be ahead at this time, although you should be aware of the next ranking in the order of poker hands, three of a kind. The worst case for a possible straight flush is holding something like A2s, AKs, A5s, etc., where there's only one possible way to flop the straight flush. In that case, the probability is one in 50C3, or 19600. The best case is 45s.TJs, which is 4 in 19600, because there are 4 ways to flop the straight flush.

Whereas a pair floats by often enough, getting a straight or royal flush is less likely. 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. The Odds of Making a Straight Flush in Poker The odds of flopping a straight flush with a premium suited connector such as T9s is 0.02% or 1 in 4,900 Definition of the Straight Flush – Five cards of consecutive rank, all of the same suit. Hypergeometric distribution won't help you for a straight at all - you need other techniques. I'll do straight flush for you, even though HG distribution only gets you halfway to the answer.

The following Texas Holdem odds table highlights some common probabilities that you may encounter in Hold'em. It is not vital that you learn these probabilities, but it is useful to be aware of the chances of certain situations arising.

Texas Hold'em odds chart.

How to use Texas Hold'em odds.

The odds in this Texas Hold'em odds table are unlikely to directly help your overall strategy, but they are pretty interesting nonetheless. The Texas Hold'em odds for each of the different situations have been given in both percentage and ratio odds, so use whichever format you feel comfortable with.

Other poker odds charts.

For more useful odds charts that you can use for when you are working out whether or not to call when on a drawing hand, use the following tables:

Both of these tables give the odds for completing your draw depending on how many outs you have. You can find out more on how to work out odds and all that mathematical stuff in the article on pot odds.

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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.

Did You Know?

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.

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.

Chance Of Flopping A Royal Flush In Texas Holdem

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.

Chances Of Straight Flush In Texas Holdem Tournaments

In Texas Hold-Em Poker the odds of making a royal flush hand is only 649,739 to 1.