Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Winning Hands In Poker Game




The various card combinations that produce winning hands are the same as in regular poker. Let It Ride uses one standard 52-card deck with no wild cards. The value of a hand depends on which of the fol lowing card combinations it contains, listed in order from the highest to the lowest.

Royal Flush: Five consecutive cards, ten through ace, all of the same suit. Simply stated, it is an ace-high straight flush. This is the highest- value hand in Let It Ride. The odds of getting a royal flush are 1 in 649,740 hands. Straight Flush: Five consecutive cards, all of the same suit. The odds of getting a straight flush (excluding a royal flush) are 1 in 72,193 hands. Four-of-a-kind: Four cards of the same rank. The fifth card is unrelated to the others. The odds of being dealt four-of-a-kind are 1 in 4,165 hands.

Full House: Three cards of the same rank and two cards of another rank, that is, three-of-a-kind and a pair. The odds of getting a full house are 1 in 694 hands. Flush: Five cards of the same suit, not in sequence. The odds of getting a flush are 1 in 509 hands. Straight: Five consecutive cards of mixed suits. An ace may be either the lowest card as in A 2345 or the highest card as in 10 J Q K A. The odds of getting a straight are 1 in 255 hands.

Three-of-a-kind: Three cards of the same rank. The remaining two cards are unrelated. The odds of getting three-of-a-kind are about 1 in 47 hands. Two Pair: A pair of one rank and a pair of another rank. The fifth card is unrelated. The odds of getting two pair are about 1 in 21 hands. One Pair: Two cards of the same rank. The three remaining cards are unrelated. The odds of getting any pair are about 1 in 2.4 hands. The lowest winning hand in Let It Ride is a pair of tens. The odds of getting a pair of tens or any better hand is 1 in 1.63.

2 comments:

Ray Marshall said...

Nice. You seem to have a wonderful knowledge about poker..

But is just about knowledge or also as some luck

linda said...

lorel i think u like poker very much and ur knowledge about it also excellent