What are the odds/probability of each possible five-card hand that could be dealt for from a standard 52-card deck where the suit of a single, unduplicated card in a hand is considered generic? Video Poker odds and probabilities depend a lot on which game/variation you`re playing and the strategy you`re employing. Therefore, it’s difficult to provide a clear-cut odds sheet or listing of probabilities that apply to all forms of video poker. However, what we can do, and what we`ve done here, is provide the odds for being DEALT any of the following hands. Since video poker traditionally follows the same odds as 5-card draw, these odds may look familiar to you.

As you can see, the table above at least a bit of an idea as to what type of odds you`re stacked up against in terms accumulating certain hands. To sum up the table differently, you`re basically looking at:

• being dealt one pair 72% of the time
• two pair 5% of the time
• three of kind 2.2%
• straight 0.4%
• flush 0.19%
• four of a kind 0.02%
• straight flush 0.001%
• royal flush 0.0001% So, don’t expect to be dealt to really ever be dealt anything better than a flush (we`re optimistic, we know).

With an idea of the type of odds you`re up against from the get-go, you should have a better ability to crunch even more numbers in your head as you move along. This table here is just a start.