Chances of hitting, flopping and holding certain hands
- The Texas Hold’em odds of how likely hands are to unfold after the flop will help guide almost every action you make on the flop Odds On the Flop in Texas Hold’em. The flop is the turning point of a Hold’em hand. This is where you’re going to make your biggest and most expensive decisions.
- 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.
Jul 20, 2016 When you sit down to a game of Texas Hold 'Em, what are the odds you'll get a royal flush on the flop? Each hand in Hold 'Em is some combination of five cards from a deck of 52, which means there are 2,598,960 possible hands. A royal flush, on the contrary, is five specific cards: a ten, jack, queen, king, and ace, all of the same suit.
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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
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.
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.