Math 221 Counting Worksheet: Poker Hands

A standard 52-card deck consists of 13 cards from each of 4 suits (spades, hearts,
diamonds, clubs). The 13 cards have value 2 through 10, jack (J), queen (Q), king (K), or
ace (A). Each value is a kind of card. The jack, queen, and king are called face
cards.

How many 5-card poker hands are there?

52
5 2,598,960

How many contain a royal flush (10, J, Q, K, A all of the same suit)?

How many contain a straight flush (5 consecutive cards of the same suit)?
Do not include royal flushes in your count.
Note: For a straight, aces can be either high or low, e.g. A-2-3-4-5 and 10-J-Q-K-A are
valid straights but J-Q-K-A-2 is not.

4 10 4 36

How many contain four of a kind?

13 12 4
1 1 1 624

How many contain a full house (three of a kind plus a pair)?

13 4 12 4
1 3 1 2 3744

How many contain a flush (5 cards of the same suit)? Do not include straight flushes or
royal flushes in your count.

4 13
1 5 40 5108

How many contain a straight (5 consecutive cards)? Do not include straight flushes or
royal flushes in your count.

10 5
1 4 40 10, 200

How many contain three of a kind (the other two cards are not a pair)?

13 4 12 2
1 3 2 4 54,912

How many contain two pairs (the two pairs must be of different kinds)?

13 4 4 11 4
2 2 2 1 1 123,552

How many contain exactly one pair?

13 4 12 3
1 2 3 4 1,098, 240

How many contain just high card (none of the above)?

All of the above are disjoint, so we can do total - "above" 1, 302,540