Straiight flush Each straig

ght flush is uniquely

u
dettermined by its highest rranking cardd; and
thesee ranks go from
fr
5 (A-2--3-4-5) up to
o A (10-J-Q
Q-K-A) in eeach of the 4 suits. Thuss, the
total number of straight
s
flush
hes is:

Royal strraight flush

h A royaal straight fluush is a subbset of all sttraight flushhes in
which the ace is the highest
h
card
d (i.e. 10-J-Q
Q-K-A in anyy of the fourr suits). Thuus, the
total num
mber of royall straight flu
ushes is

orr simply
fllushes is 36.

. Note:
N
this means
m
that tthe total nuumber of noon-Royal strraight

Fourr of a kind Any one of the thirteen ranks cann form the fo
four of a kind by selectinng all
four of the suits in that rank.. The final card can havee any one off the twelve remaining rranks,
and any
a suit. Thu
us, the total number
n
of fo
our-of-a-kindds is:

Full house Th
he full housee comprises a triple (threee of a kind)) and a pair. The triple can be
any one
o of the th
hirteen rankss, and consissts of three oof the four suuits. The paiir can be anyy one
of thee remaining twelve rank
ks, and consists of two off the four suuits. Thus, thhe total numbber of
full houses
h
is:

Flush
h The flu
ush contains any five off the thirteenn ranks, all oof which belong to one oof the
four suits, minus the 40 straig
ght flushes. Thus, the total number oof flushes is::

Straiight The straight conssists of any one

o of the teen possible ssequences off five conseccutive
cardss, from 5-4-3
3-2-A to A-K
K-Q-J-10. Each
E
of thesee five cards can have anny one of thee four
suits.. Finally, as with the flussh, the 40 strraight flushees must be exxcluded, givving:

Threee of a kind Any of th

he thirteen ranks can forrm the three of a kind, w
which can coontain
any three
t
of thee four suits. The remain
ning two carrds can havve any two of the remaaining
twelv
ve ranks, and each can have
h
any of the four suiits. Thus, thhe total numbber of three--of-akindss is:

Two pair Thee pairs can have

h
any two
o of the thirteeen ranks, aand each pairr can have tw
wo of
the four
fo suits. Th
he final card
d can have any
a one of thhe eleven reemaining rannks, and anyy suit.
Thuss, the total nu
umber of two
o-pairs is:

Pair The pairr can have any

a one of th
he thirteen rranks, and anny two of thhe four suits. The
remaaining three cards can haave any threee of the rem
maining twellve ranks, annd each can have
any of
o the four su
uits. Thus, th
he total num
mber of pair hhands is:

No pair
p
A no
o-pair hand contains fiv
ve of the thirrteen ranks, discountingg the ten posssible
straig
ghts, and eacch card can have any off the four suiits, discountiing the four possible fluushes.
Alterrnatively, a no-pair
n
hand
d is any hand
d that does nnot fall into one of the aabove categoories;
that is,
i the compllement of th
he union of all
a the abovee hands, wheere the univeerse is any w
way to
choose five out of
o 52 cards. Thus,
T
the tottal number oof no-pair haands is:

Any five
f card po
oker hand The total number
n
of ffive card hannds that can be drawn frrom a
deck of cards is found using
g a combinattion selectingg five cards, in any order where n rrefers
to the number off items that can be seleccted and r too the samplee size; the "!" is the facctorial
operaator: