THE WORLD'S #1 POKER MANUAL - Card Games

Poker Book, Poker Odds
(+) No straights or flushes. Ace is high.
(++) Including straights and flushes.Ace is low.
Jack high (+) 20 127,500
Ten high (+) 37 70,360
Nine high (++) 36 71,860
Eight high (++) 70 35,840
Seven high (++) 170 15,360
Six high (++) 500 5,120
Five high (++) 2,500 1,024
There are 2,598,960 different poker hands in a fifty-two-card deck. If a player is dealt 100,000 hands in
his lifetime, he will never hold (on his first five cards) more than 4 percent of all the possible hands.
Other poker probabilities based on the card odds are tabulated in Appendix D.
The card odds can reveal interesting information. For example. how many pat straight flushes will
Sid Bennett get during his lifetime? To determine that number, the expected number of hands that
will be dealt to him during his life is estimated by the following calculation:
10 hands/hr.x5 hrs./gamex50 games/yr.
x40 yrs./poker life=l00,000 hands/poker life
From this estimation, the number of pat (on the first five cards) poker hands that Sid should get
during his lifetime is calculated from the card odds and tabulated below:
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Approximate Number of
Pat Hands in a
Lifetime