Standard high-hand order uses the best five cards. Suits do not break a tie. If both best fives are identical, the pot is split. There are 2,598,960 ways to deal five cards, and 133,784,560 ways to deal seven. The seven-card column is the best five of those seven. It is not the chance of making that hand once your hole cards are known.
- Royal flushAce-high straight flush.
- Straight flushFive in a row, one suit.
- Four of a kindThen the kicker.
- Full houseHigher three of a kind, then the pair.
- FlushHighest card, then the next.
- StraightHigher top card. Ace-to-five is lowest.
- Three of a kindThen the two kickers.
- Two pairHigher pair, second pair, kicker.
- One pairThen three kickers.
- High cardFive cards, from the top down.
| Hand | Best 5 of 7 | Hold'em chance | About | Five cards | Five-card chance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Royal flush | 4,324 | 0.0032% | 1 in 30,940 | 4 | 0.00015% |
| Straight flush | 37,260 | 0.0279% | 1 in 3,591 | 36 | 0.0014% |
| Four of a kind | 224,848 | 0.168% | 1 in 595 | 624 | 0.024% |
| Full house | 3,473,184 | 2.60% | 1 in 39 | 3,744 | 0.144% |
| Flush | 4,047,644 | 3.03% | 1 in 33 | 5,108 | 0.197% |
| Straight | 6,180,020 | 4.62% | 1 in 22 | 10,200 | 0.392% |
| Three of a kind | 6,461,620 | 4.83% | 1 in 21 | 54,912 | 2.11% |
| Two pair | 31,433,400 | 23.50% | 1 in 4.3 | 123,552 | 4.75% |
| One pair | 58,627,800 | 43.82% | 1 in 2.3 | 1,098,240 | 42.26% |
| High card | 23,294,460 | 17.41% | 1 in 5.7 | 1,302,540 | 50.12% |
In seven cards you finish with high card less often than with one pair, and two pair turns up more often than high card. Five cards dealt in a row are still high card about half the time. Royal flush and four of a kind in seven cards can also be counted directly: 4 suits × 1,081 ways to choose the other two cards is 4,324 royals, and 13 × 17,296 ways to fill around quads is 224,848. The other rows complete the enumeration of all 133,784,560 holdings. Short Deck, Omaha, Razz, and eight-or-better games do not all use this order. Omaha must use exactly two hole cards and three board cards.
Hand rankings and how often they appear
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.