Chances of hitting, flopping and holding certain hands

  1. Texas Holdem Flush Rules
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
Probability

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.

Texas Holdem Flush Rules

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.

Probabilities
Scenarios – Chances of Having Certain HandsExamplesProbability
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 upAA vs KK

.004%

Chances of Hitting on Flop
Pocket Pair Into A SetJJ 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 Same5h 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 straightYou 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 hearts37K48

.19%

Straight34567

.35%

Three of a Kind555AK

2.11%

Two PairAAKK2

4.7%

One Pair77253

42%

Don’t catch anything2854K

50%

Why Poker Odds Matter

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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.