Poker Strategies
After receiving pocket cards, you are immediately faced with a choice: play your cards and either raise or call the blinds, or fold.
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Probabilities in Seven Card Stud
Probabilities in Seven Card Stud The following table gives the odds against being dealt various combinations with the first three dealt cards, plus the odds against improving various dealt combinations in Seven Card Stud (High) Texas Hold'em Poker. For strategic reasons many of these figures are somewhat deceptive—a player with only a potential hand may be forced to fold before he has received his complete hand.
THE ODDS AGAINST BEING DEALT A THREE-CARD
THE ODDS AGAINST BEING DEALT A THREE-CARD STARTING HAND IN SEVEN CARD STUD Chances of Being Dealt the Following on the First Three Cards Number of Possible Combinations Odds Against Any three of a kind 52 424 to 1 Three aces 45,524 to 1 Three jacks, three queens or three kings 12 1,840 to 1 Three fives, three sixes, three sevens or three eights 16 1,380 to 1 Three twos, three threes, three fours, three fives, or three sixes20 ,104 to 1 Any pair plus one odd card 3,744 4.90 to 1 A pair of aces and one odd card 288 75.7 to 1 A pair of jacks, queens or kings plus one odd card A pair of twos, threes, fours, or fives plus one odd card 1,152 18.1 to 1 A pair of fives, sixes, sevens, eights, or nines plus one odd card 1,440 14.3 to 1 Three-card* straight flush 256 85.3 to 1 Three-card flush 888 23.8 to 1 Three-card straight 3,8404.7 to 1 *There are 22,100 possible three-card combinations.