A pocket pair starts with 6 combinations. A suited hand starts with 4. An offsuit hand starts with 12. Ace-king of either pattern starts with 16. Hold one of the cards and some of those combinations disappear.
| Opponent holding | Combinations left |
|---|---|
| Ace-king, no blockers | 16 |
| Ace-king, when you hold one ace | 12 |
| Ace-king, when you hold pocket aces | 8 |
| Ace-king, when you hold ace-king | 9 |
| Pocket aces, when you hold one ace | 3 |
| Pocket aces, when you hold ace-king | 3 |
| Pocket kings, when you hold ace-king | 3 |
| A pocket pair, when the board shows that rank once | 3 |
| One specific suited hand, when you hold one of its suits | 3 |
Sets still available: kings, sevens, and deuces, 3 combinations each, 9 in all. One card of each rank is already on the board. Pocket aces are 6 combinations, or 3 if you hold the ace of spades. King-seven is 9 combinations, 3 kings times 3 sevens. Whether an opponent plays those hands is a strategy question. The combination count is the deck.
These counts are for study and post-session review. Where a row comes from a simulation, the caption names how many deals were run. Where a stack or a pot is made up, the caption says so. None of these figures is an instruction for a live pot.