McG Posted August 31, 2007 Share Posted August 31, 2007 Dear All Firstly, apologies if I've posted this in the wrong section. Any idea on where I can find details on the odds of particular hands cropping up in Texas Hold'em? Our regular monthly home game (6 players, about 100 hands a night) has a separate pot for the person having a straight flush, and it lasted about a year before going last month. I have googled and seen the odds of having a straight flush in regular 5-card poker is 72,192-1. So is it simply a case of including the other 2 cards as variants (bringing the odds down by a factor of 21 to about 3,437-1). All help gratefully received. McG :gimme Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slapdash Posted August 31, 2007 Share Posted August 31, 2007 Re: Poker odds I have googled and seen the odds of having a straight flush in regular 5-card poker is 72,192-1. So is it simply a case of including the other 2 cards as variants (bringing the odds down by a factor of 21 to about 3,437-1). Almost. But you have to adjust slightly for the fact that a 7-card hand can have more than one 5-card straight flush (e.g., if the hand is 3,4,5,6,7,8,9, all of the same suit, it has three 5-card straight flushes). This means the chance of at least one straight flush in the seven cards is a bit lower than the figure your calculation gives. I make the odds about 3,590-1. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slapdash Posted August 31, 2007 Share Posted August 31, 2007 Re: Poker odds This page has odds for seven-card stud, which will be the same as Texas Holdem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glceud Posted August 31, 2007 Share Posted August 31, 2007 Re: Poker odds Out of curiosity Slapdash can you work this one out, seeing as The Party Poker bad beat jackpot is running at $600,000+ The required hands have to include both hole cards and the losing hand must be quad 8's or better. I reckon I must have played 2,000,000 plus hands of poker and I have never seen a qualifying hand Half expecting a deep thought type responce from the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy on this one Just thought, the above odds dont take into account that every one doesnt play every single pair of suited connectors and most dont chase their runner runner straight flushes even if they do. So the odds of seeing a straight flush will be far higher Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slapdash Posted August 31, 2007 Share Posted August 31, 2007 Re: Poker odds Out of curiosity Slapdash can you work this one out, seeing as The Party Poker bad beat jackpot is running at $600,000+ The required hands have to include both hole cards and the losing hand must be quad 8's or better. Which hand has to include both hole cards? Both of them? And can the winning hand be anything, so long as the losing hand is quad 8s or better? Half expecting a deep thought type responce from the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy on this one I'm pretty sure the odds are longer than 42/1! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glceud Posted August 31, 2007 Share Posted August 31, 2007 Re: Poker odds Both the winning and the losing hands have to use both hole cards and the losing hands has to be quad 8's or better. Think the answer mght be here- http://wizardofodds.com/holdem/badbeat.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peri68 Posted September 13, 2007 Share Posted September 13, 2007 Re: Poker odds About 2 months ago i had 4 jacks beat by straight flush 9-k.......... unfortunately it was on Virgin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubermonkey1 Posted September 18, 2007 Share Posted September 18, 2007 Re: Poker odds i once had quad queens beaten by aces, it was truly sick:pukeand it would have qualified as i had 2 queens in the hole ,on a boss site i think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GaF Posted September 18, 2007 Share Posted September 18, 2007 Re: Poker odds I once had 72o cracked by Aces - doesn't get any sicker than that !!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glceud Posted September 18, 2007 Share Posted September 18, 2007 Re: Poker odds I once had 72o cracked by Aces - doesn't get any sicker than that !!! You must have been multitabling and not noticed it was suited- only explanation I can think off Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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