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Big Two And N-Card Poker Probabilities, Brian Wu, Chai Wah Wu
Big Two And N-Card Poker Probabilities, Brian Wu, Chai Wah Wu
Communications on Number Theory and Combinatorial Theory
Between the poker hands of straight, flush, and full house, which hand is more common? In standard 5-card poker, the order from most common to least common is straight, flush, full house. The same order is true for 7-card poker such as Texas hold'em. However, is the same true for n-card poker for larger n? We study the probability of obtaining these various hands for n-card poker for various values of n≥5. In particular, we derive closed expressions for the probabilities of flush, straight and full house and show that the probability of a flush is less than a straight …