Poker Hand Probability Table
Chances of hitting, flopping and holding certain hands
The following table lists, for each hand, the number and probability of a given hand. Five-Card Stud (Natural) Probabilities Hand Number Probability Straight Flush 2 40 0.00002 Four-of-a-Kind 624 0.00024 Full House 3744 0.00144 Flush 5108 0.00197 Straight 10,200 0.00393 Three-of-a-Kind 54,912 0.02113 Two Pair 123,552 0.04754. Wild cards introduce multiple evaluations for a given hand, and the best standard evaluation for any given hand is used in the tables. Data from this page may be freely used provided it includes an acknowledgement to the author. 6 card poker probabilities if there are no wild cards (Computer program and data by Bill Butler) Poker Hand Nbr.
These odds are a must know if you want to advance your game to a high level. For exact odds you can check out our poker hand odds calculator. We rounded the number to the nearest decimal for you.
You should know what beats what in poker before trying to apply these odds or playing like you see poker on tv and in commercials.
| Scenarios – Chances of Having Certain Hands | Examples | Probability | ||
| Chances of Being Dealt | ||||
| Pair | 6h 6d | 6% | ||
| Suited Cards | Ah 10h | 24% | ||
| Connecting Suits | 2d 3d | 4% | ||
| Aces or Kings | AA KK | .9% | ||
| Ace King | AhKs | 1.2% | ||
| Ace King Suited | AhKh | .3% | ||
| An Ace | A3 | 16% | ||
| Cards Jacks or Higher not Paired | KJ | 9% | ||
| Not Suited & Not Connected | 9h 4s | .9% | ||
| Bad Beats | ||||
| Bad Beat ex: Aces vs Kings heads up | AA vs KK | .004% | ||
| Chances of Hitting on Flop | ||||
| Pocket Pair Into A Set | JJ into JJJ | 8% | ||
| Pair Turning Into A Set On Turn | 4% | |||
| Hitting Pair on Flop | 32% | |||
| Flopping Four To Flush-You hold 6h7h-flop comes-> | Ah Kh 2s | 11% | ||
| Chances of Board Coming All Same | 5h 5s 5d | .004% | ||
| Number of Players To Flop Odds | ||||
| Situation – Chances someone hit top pair on board | ||||
| 5 players see flop | 58% | |||
| 4 players see flop | 47% | |||
| 3 player see flop | 35% | |||
| 2 player see flop | 23% | |||
| After Flop – Chances of Making Hand | ||||
| Making open straight – You hold 67 Flop comes 8,9,2 | turn 10 | 34% | ||
| Two pair to full house – You- 47 Board 4,7,10 Turn –> | 7 | 17% | ||
| Hitting A Gut Shot Straight | 17% | |||
| Backdoor Flush – You have 1 spade – Board 2s4h8s | 10s 7s | 4% | ||
| Runner Runner Straight | 1.5% | |||
| Hitting Either Gut Shot Straight or Backdoor Flush | 21% | |||
| Pairing An Ace on Turn or River | 13% | |||
| Before Any Cards Are Dealt – Chances of Getting | ||||
| Royal Flush (All Spades) | AKQJ10 | .0002% | ||
| Straight Flush (Any same suits) | 56789 | .0012% | ||
| Four of a Kind (Quads) | 5555K | .0239% | ||
| Full House (Boat) | 33322 | .144% | ||
| Flush (all same suit) =>all hearts | 37K48 | .19% | ||
| Straight | 34567 | .35% | ||
| Three of a Kind | 555AK | 2.11% | ||
| Two Pair | AAKK2 | 4.7% | ||
| One Pair | 77253 | 42% | ||
| Don’t catch anything | 2854K | 50% | ||
Why Poker Odds Matter
Royal Flush
Why Odds Matter To any good Texas Holdem players these odds come naturally. They may not know the exact percentage but they instinctively know their odds. Referencing this table is a great way to understand your percentages if you are a new player or if you want to calculate your pot odds.
Poker Hand Probability Table Examples
We developed what we believe are the best formulas for calculating pot odds that you will find on the internet. It is the same way the pros calculate their pot odds and we also simplified it for those of you who are not that good at math. Check out the Pot Odds section.
Mark Brader has provided the following tables of probabilities of the various five-card poker hands when five cards are dealt from a single 52-card deck, and also when using multiple decks.
PROBABILITY: 5-CARD POKER HANDS
The traditional hand types are described on the poker hand ranking page. These include one hand that belongs to two types at once - a straight flush is both a straight and a flush. With two or more decks, it is possible for other combinations to occur, such as a hand that has both a flush and a pair (such as 4-6-6-8-9 all of one suit). The left-hand tables include these composite hand types for multiple decks; in these tables 'plain' means a hand that is not a flush.
The hands are listed in descending order of probability, which could be used as the basis for their ranking order in multi-deck poker variations. It can be seen that as the number of decks increases, flushes become easier to make than straights, and sets of equal cards become more common.
Here is the Perl program that produced the tables. Mark Brader has placed both the program and the tables in the public domain.