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  1. Ive been wondering this for a while, and maybe i'm missing something, but why is a flush ranked higher than a straight? If after the flop you have 4 cards to a flush, there are 9 cards remaining to complete your flush. If you hold 45 for example, and the flop is A67, you only have 8 outs to hit a straight, and that's with an open ended straight draw, you'd only have 4 outs with a gutshot. Since you have 9 outs to hit a flush, and 8 to hit a straight, shouldn't a flush be considered a weaker holding? The only explination I can think of is that we can assume at full ring, someone else likely has one of our flush cards, but shouldn't we assume the same about the straight cards? What am I missing? why is a flush ranked higher?
  2. More combo's of the two cards on the flop that give you the opened straight draw

    IE: If you have 65ss

    There are more combo's of cards that will put a 78 on the flop than the liklihood of two spades flopping.
  3. cuz flushes are cooler, ldo
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  4.  
    Originally Posted by elusively View Post

    More combo's of the two cards on the flop that give you the opened straight draw

    IE: If you have 65ss

    There are more combo's of cards that will put a 78 on the flop than the liklihood of two spades flopping.

    Thanks that definitly makes sense.
    Thread Starter
  5. Poker Winning Hand Odds in 5 card Games -

    There are many poker variants, but unless otherwise specified in the rules of the variant being played, hands are evaluated using the traditional set of five-card hands. These are, from worst to best:
    • <LI>No pair (for example, A-Q-10-5-2) <LI>One pair (for example, 10-10-K-7-4) <LI>Two pair (for example, K-K-9-9-J) <LI>Three of a kind (for example, 4-4-4-K-9) <LI>Straight (for example, 9-8-7-6-5) <LI>Flush (for example, K-J-8-7-4 of one suit) <LI>Full house (for example, 2-2-2-Q-Q) <LI>Four of a kind (for example, J-J-J-J-6) <LI>Straight flush (for example, Q-J-10-9-8 of one suit) <LI>Royal straight flush (only A-K-Q-J-10 of a single suit; not technically a separate hand, but sans wild cards the highest possible in poker [also called simply a royal flush]) <LI>Five of a kind (for example, 6-6-6-6-(Wild), only possible in Wild card game. Poker games may contain one or more cards designated as wild . These may be jokers, or they may be normal ranked and suited cards pressed into wild card duty ("deuces wild" is a common variant).</LI>
    These hands are called the traditional hands or high hands.
    The odds chart below says it all, pretty much.
    The probability distribution of the various hands for a 5-card game without wild cards and playing Ace high only is as follows:

    <TABLE><TBODY><TR><TH>Hand</TH><TH>Probability</TH><TH colSpan=2>Distribution</TH></TR><TR><TD>No pair</TD><TD align=right>1,303,560 in 2,598,960</TD><TD align=right>50</TD><TD>.16%</TD></TR><TR><TD>One pair</TD><TD align=right>1,098,240 in 2,598,960</TD><TD align=right>42</TD><TD>.26%</TD></TR><TR><TD>Two pair</TD><TD align=right>123,552 in 2,598,960</TD><TD align=right>4</TD><TD>.75%</TD></TR><TR><TD>Three of a kind</TD><TD align=right>54,912 in 2,598,960</TD><TD align=right>2</TD><TD>.11%</TD></TR><TR><TD>Straight</TD><TD align=right>9,180 in 2,598,960</TD><TD align=right>0</TD><TD>.353%</TD></TR><TR><TD>Flush</TD><TD align=right>5,112 in 2,598,960</TD><TD align=right>0</TD><TD>.197%</TD></TR><TR><TD>Full house</TD><TD align=right>3,744 in 2,598,960</TD><TD align=right>0</TD><TD>.144%</TD></TR><TR><TD>Four of a kind</TD><TD align=right>624 in 2,598,960</TD><TD align=right>0</TD><TD>.0240%</TD></TR><TR><TD>Straight flush (excluding Royal flush)</TD><TD align=right>32 in 2,598,960</TD><TD align=right>0</TD><TD>.00123%</TD></TR><TR><TD>Royal straight flush</TD><TD align=right>4 in 2,598,960</TD><TD align=right>0</TD><TD>.000154%</TD></TR><TR><TD>TOTAL</TD><TD align=right>2,598,960 in 2,598,960</TD><TD align=right>100</TD><TD>.00%</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
  6.  
    Originally Posted by elusively View Post

    More combo's of the two cards on the flop that give you the opened straight draw

    IE: If you have 65ss

    There are more combo's of cards that will put a 78 on the flop than the liklihood of two spades flopping.

    Although this may be true, the reason doesn't have anything to do with flops, pocket cards, etc. It has solely to do with which is more likely in a five card hand: a straight or a flush. These hand rankings were developed long before Texas Holdem existed.
     
  7. There are 13 cards in the deck that can make a flush

    A stright (ex. 45678) can be created by a combination of 20 cards in the deck.
  8. Why not just flop both and save the hassle?

    :)
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  9.  
    Originally Posted by wandigo View Post

    Why not just flop both and save the hassle?

    :)

    I like your background
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  10. Yeah the problem with this is that you're only thinking about Texas Hold Em. You need to think about poker in general and all of it's games. Hold Em is just one of many variants, and they all go by the same hand rankings which is the probability that any 5 random cards will fall a certain way. If we laid out 5 cards over a million times, straights would come out more often than flushes which is why they are ranked lower.
  11.  
    Originally Posted by AwesomeO View Post

    cuz flushes are cooler, ldo

  12. Whatever. Frushes hit 100% of the time. Every single fucking time. Sooted tards always win.

    Here, I'll fix that stupid probability table to reflect the true odds of frushes vs straights and everything else on pokerstars:

    <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=458 border=0 x:str><COLGROUP> <COL width=223> <COL width=141> <COL width=28> <COL width=66> <TBODY><TR height=17><TD class=xl22 width=223 height=17>Hand</TD><TD class=xl22 width=141>Probability</TD><TD class=xl22 width=94 colSpan=2>Distribution</TD></TR><TR height=17><TD class=xl23 width=223 height=17>Flush</TD><TD class=xl24 width=141>2,598,960 in 2,598,960</TD><TD class=xl24 width=28 x:num>100</TD><TD class=xl25 align=right width=66 x:num="1">100.00%</TD></TR><TR height=17><TD class=xl23 width=223 height=17>One pair</TD><TD class=xl24 width=141>1,098,240 in 2,598,960</TD><TD class=xl24 width=28 x:num>42</TD><TD class=xl25 align=right width=66 x:num="2.5999999999999999E-3">0.26%</TD></TR><TR height=17><TD class=xl23 width=223 height=17>Two pair</TD><TD class=xl24 width=141>123,552 in 2,598,960</TD><TD class=xl24 width=28 x:num>4</TD><TD class=xl25 align=right width=66 x:num="7.4999999999999997E-3">0.75%</TD></TR><TR height=17><TD class=xl23 width=223 height=17>Three of a kind</TD><TD class=xl24 width=141>54,912 in 2,598,960</TD><TD class=xl24 width=28 x:num>2</TD><TD class=xl25 align=right width=66 x:num="1.1000000000000001E-3">0.11%</TD></TR><TR height=17><TD class=xl23 width=223 height=17>Straight</TD><TD class=xl24 width=141>9,180 in 2,598,960</TD><TD class=xl24 width=28 x:num>0</TD><TD class=xl25 align=right width=66 x:num="3.5300000000000002E-3">0.35%</TD></TR><TR height=17><TD class=xl23 width=223 height=17>Full house</TD><TD class=xl24 width=141>3,744 in 2,598,960</TD><TD class=xl24 width=28 x:num>0</TD><TD class=xl25 align=right width=66 x:num="1.4400000000000001E-3">0.14%</TD></TR><TR height=17><TD class=xl23 width=223 height=17>Four of a kind</TD><TD class=xl24 width=141>624 in 2,598,960</TD><TD class=xl24 width=28 x:num>0</TD><TD class=xl25 align=right width=66 x:num="2.4000000000000001E-4">0.02%</TD></TR><TR height=17><TD class=xl23 width=223 height=17>Straight flush (excluding Royal flush)</TD><TD class=xl24 width=141>32 in 2,598,960</TD><TD class=xl24 width=28 x:num>0</TD><TD class=xl25 align=right width=66 x:num="1.2300000000000001E-5">0.00%</TD></TR><TR height=17><TD class=xl23 width=223 height=17>Royal straight flush</TD><TD class=xl24 width=141>4 in 2,598,960</TD><TD class=xl24 width=28 x:num>0</TD><TD class=xl25 align=right width=66 x:num="1.5400000000000001E-6">0.00%</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
  13. Two pair on the internets should beat a flush given how often they hit.

    That said, I've never understood why these silly charts and hand rankings have a separate category for a Royal Flush? It's just a straight flush that outranks all the others? Why aren't there separate individual categories for each pair within the ranks of one pair, etc?...
  14.  
    Originally Posted by zander View Post

    Two pair on the internets should beat a flush given how often they hit.

    That said, I've never understood why these silly charts and hand rankings have a separate category for a Royal Flush? It's just a straight flush that outranks all the others? Why aren't there separate individual categories for each pair within the ranks of one pair, etc?...

    Because a royal flush is a specific straight flush. There are only 4 ways to make a royal flush, there are many more ways of making a lower straight flush.
  15.  
    Originally Posted by Rev.K View Post

     
    Originally Posted by zander View Post

    Two pair on the internets should beat a flush given how often they hit.

    That said, I've never understood why these silly charts and hand rankings have a separate category for a Royal Flush? It's just a straight flush that outranks all the others? Why aren't there separate individual categories for each pair within the ranks of one pair, etc?...

    Because a royal flush is a specific straight flush. There are only 4 ways to make a royal flush, there are many more ways of making a lower straight flush.

    But one pair of aces is one specific pair, and there are many lower pairs. A royal beating a 9-k straight flush is just as evident as a pair of aces beating a pair of kings... I fail to see why the distinction is necessary.
  16.  
    Originally Posted by zander View Post


    But one pair of aces is one specific pair, and there are many lower pairs. A royal beating a 9-k straight flush is just as evident as a pair of aces beating a pair of kings... I fail to see why the distinction is necessary.

    2 pair is just one more pair than 1 pair. Why do we need a distinction? A straight is just 5 cards in order. Why does it beat a pair? A set is just a pocket pair with one more on the board. Why do we need a distinction? If my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle. Why do we need a distinction?
  17.  
    Originally Posted by Limo Wreck View Post

     
    Originally Posted by zander View Post


    But one pair of aces is one specific pair, and there are many lower pairs. A royal beating a 9-k straight flush is just as evident as a pair of aces beating a pair of kings... I fail to see why the distinction is necessary.

    2 pair is just one more pair than 1 pair. Why do we need a distinction? A straight is just 5 cards in order. Why does it beat a pair? A set is just a pocket pair with one more on the board. Why do we need a distinction? If my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle. Why do we need a distinction?

    Two pair is not one pair. A Royal Flush Is a straight flush. Limo Wreck is a troll. Is that simple enough to understand?
  18.  
    Originally Posted by zander View Post

     
    Originally Posted by Limo Wreck View Post

     
    Originally Posted by zander View Post


    But one pair of aces is one specific pair, and there are many lower pairs. A royal beating a 9-k straight flush is just as evident as a pair of aces beating a pair of kings... I fail to see why the distinction is necessary.

    2 pair is just one more pair than 1 pair. Why do we need a distinction? A straight is just 5 cards in order. Why does it beat a pair? A set is just a pocket pair with one more on the board. Why do we need a distinction? If my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle. Why do we need a distinction?

    Two pair is not one pair. A Royal Flush Is a straight flush. Limo Wreck is a troll. Is that simple enough to understand?

    Ok maybe I can frame this in a way that your stubbornly obtuse mind can understand. A Royal Flush is the best possible hand in poker, and it just happens to be a point of interest with people, what the odds are of getting the best possible hand. It is distinctly different from any other poker hand in that regard.
  19.  
    Originally Posted by Limo Wreck View Post

     
    Originally Posted by zander View Post

     
    Originally Posted by Limo Wreck View Post

     
    Originally Posted by zander View Post


    But one pair of aces is one specific pair, and there are many lower pairs. A royal beating a 9-k straight flush is just as evident as a pair of aces beating a pair of kings... I fail to see why the distinction is necessary.

    2 pair is just one more pair than 1 pair. Why do we need a distinction? A straight is just 5 cards in order. Why does it beat a pair? A set is just a pocket pair with one more on the board. Why do we need a distinction? If my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle. Why do we need a distinction?

    Two pair is not one pair. A Royal Flush Is a straight flush. Limo Wreck is a troll. Is that simple enough to understand?

    Ok maybe I can frame this in a way that your stubbornly obtuse mind can understand. A Royal Flush is the best possible hand in poker, and it just happens to be a point of interest with people, what the odds are of getting the best possible hand. It is distinctly different from any other poker hand in that regard.

    At least you tried to answer the question the second time instead of just being a contrarian dbag... so thanks, I guess. I guess that's the only possible answer that isn't simply retarded.

    But more importantly, I was looking at your profile to see who the f you were... You can get rankings points for zero dollar cashes on carbon? What the hell is that?
  20.  
    Originally Posted by slapshot View Post

    Whatever. Frushes hit 100% of the time. Every single fucking time. Sooted tards always win.

    Here, I'll fix that stupid probability table to reflect the true odds of frushes vs straights and everything else on pokerstars:

    <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=458 border=0 x:str><COLGROUP> <COL width=223> <COL width=141> <COL width=28> <COL width=66> <TBODY><TR height=17><TD class=xl22 width=223 height=17>Hand</TD><TD class=xl22 width=141>Probability</TD><TD class=xl22 width=94 colSpan=2>Distribution</TD></TR><TR height=17><TD class=xl23 width=223 height=17>Flush</TD><TD class=xl24 width=141>2,598,960 in 2,598,960</TD><TD class=xl24 width=28 x:num>100</TD><TD class=xl25 align=right width=66 x:num="1">100.00%</TD></TR><TR height=17><TD class=xl23 width=223 height=17>One pair</TD><TD class=xl24 width=141>1,098,240 in 2,598,960</TD><TD class=xl24 width=28 x:num>42</TD><TD class=xl25 align=right width=66 x:num="2.5999999999999999E-3">0.26%</TD></TR><TR height=17><TD class=xl23 width=223 height=17>Two pair</TD><TD class=xl24 width=141>123,552 in 2,598,960</TD><TD class=xl24 width=28 x:num>4</TD><TD class=xl25 align=right width=66 x:num="7.4999999999999997E-3">0.75%</TD></TR><TR height=17><TD class=xl23 width=223 height=17>Three of a kind</TD><TD class=xl24 width=141>54,912 in 2,598,960</TD><TD class=xl24 width=28 x:num>2</TD><TD class=xl25 align=right width=66 x:num="1.1000000000000001E-3">0.11%</TD></TR><TR height=17><TD class=xl23 width=223 height=17>Straight</TD><TD class=xl24 width=141>9,180 in 2,598,960</TD><TD class=xl24 width=28 x:num>0</TD><TD class=xl25 align=right width=66 x:num="3.5300000000000002E-3">0.35%</TD></TR><TR height=17><TD class=xl23 width=223 height=17>Full house</TD><TD class=xl24 width=141>3,744 in 2,598,960</TD><TD class=xl24 width=28 x:num>0</TD><TD class=xl25 align=right width=66 x:num="1.4400000000000001E-3">0.14%</TD></TR><TR height=17><TD class=xl23 width=223 height=17>Four of a kind</TD><TD class=xl24 width=141>624 in 2,598,960</TD><TD class=xl24 width=28 x:num>0</TD><TD class=xl25 align=right width=66 x:num="2.4000000000000001E-4">0.02%</TD></TR><TR height=17><TD class=xl23 width=223 height=17>Straight flush (excluding Royal flush)</TD><TD class=xl24 width=141>32 in 2,598,960</TD><TD class=xl24 width=28 x:num>0</TD><TD class=xl25 align=right width=66 x:num="1.2300000000000001E-5">0.00%</TD></TR><TR height=17><TD class=xl23 width=223 height=17>Royal straight flush</TD><TD class=xl24 width=141>4 in 2,598,960</TD><TD class=xl24 width=28 x:num>0</TD><TD class=xl25 align=right width=66 x:num="1.5400000000000001E-6">0.00%</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

    lolz, I like it...
     
  21.  
    Originally Posted by AwesomeO View Post

    I like your background

    thanks, I have a couple really cool designs that I switch between. PM me if you wanna see any of em to try out for yourself.
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  22. MATH
  23.  
    Originally Posted by wandigo View Post

    Why not just flop both and save the hassle?

    :)

    So, wtf did you do?!?!?!? Check to trap? Bet small? Bet big? Did ya get action? Or lose to runner-runner 5-of-a-kind? Cmon, man, don't leave us hanging like that!!!!
     
  24. omg, i just hit a royal straight! :-)
  25. In 3-card poker, a straight beats a flush.
  26. think how often you flop gutshots too
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  27.  
    Originally Posted by SICKTIGHT311 View Post

    In 3-card poker, a straight beats a flush.

    this is not only true but interesting. how does having more cards change the rankings?
     
  28.  
    Originally Posted by wandigo View Post

    Why not just flop both and save the hassle?

    :)

    obv brag about super user background that only BkIce Horses have access to
     
  29. every straight ever made had a 5 or a 10 in it (fact)
  30.  
    Originally Posted by scottyclark View Post

    every straight ever made had a 5 or a 10 in it (fact)

    lol, genius