Big Two and n-card poker probabilities
Abstract
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 . In particular, we derive equations for the probability of flush, straight and full house and show that the probability of flush is less than a straight when , and is more than a straight when n>11. Similarly, we show that the probability of full house is less than a straight when , and is more than a straight when n>19. This means that for games such as Big Two where the ordering of 13-card hands depends on the ordering in 5-card poker, the ranking ordering does not follow the occurrence probability ordering, contrary to what intuition suggests.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2309.00011,
title = {Big Two and n-card poker probabilities},
author = {Brian Wu and Chai Wah Wu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.00011},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
7 pages, 1 figure, 1 table, 3 program listings