Best Hand Wins: How Poker Is Governed by Chance

Odds of being dealt certain starting hands ; Any pocket pair, , 16-1 ; Any two cards with rank at least jack, , ; Any two cards with rank at

A 2 and a 7 of different suits is a terrible hand to begin a poker round with 2 and 7 can't coexist in a straight, and differing suits make it

chances of winning the national lottery wild cards for additional details ) The first calculation that must be made is to determine the total possible poker hands A poker hand consists of 5 cards

chances to win the lottery There are 2,598,960 many possible 5-card Poker hands Thus the probability of obtaining any one specific hand is 1 in 2,598,960 (roughly 1 in