smjkrj

im pretty new to poker only been playing about 4 months
what still puzzles me is ranks
i understand why a straight beats a pair
i understand y a flush beats a striaght
but why do a flush and a straight beat 3 of a kind
i mean the odds for hitting 3 of 4 cards in the pack is better than catching five in a row or suited??
who made these rules lol
i just think odds should favour 3 of a kind over a flush or straight ??
figure someone out there will know why it dosnt lol
thanks

ICBM

The odds show a straight and flush areharder to get than 3 of a kind...

Royal Flush - Odds of hitting 1 in 649,739
Straight Flush - Odds of hitting 1 in 72,195
Four Of A Kind - Odds of hitting 1 in 4,160
Full House - Odds of hitting 1 in 693
Flush - Odds of hitting 1 in 503
Straight - Odds of hitting 1 in 254
Three Of A Kind - Odds of hitting 1 in 46
Two Pair - Odds of hitting 1 in 20
Pair - Odds of hitting 1 in 4

smjkrj

thanks for the input it was really puzzeling me lol
shows how new i am lol
my luck i'll play agaisnt u one day and u'll kick my bootie lol
:P
or i'll get lucky and kick urs hahahha
btw this is a great site thanks for having it

Poor4ever

I was looking back at some old post and ran across this one that showed the odds of actually capturing certain poker hands. I guess these figures are true to a 'live game' of poker with a single deck of 52 cards; however, I think it is not true with online poker and the numeric algorithms that are used to randomly generate cards and/or simulate a deck of cards because it seems that there is a st8 or flush almost every five hands or so depending on the site. In my personal opinion, poker.com seems to be the closest I have found to correctly simulating a true single deck of cards because you don't always see those killer hands winning.

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eddy41

your jokeing no site gives you any better chance of hitting your outs . theres no cheats out there its the way "YOU" play your cards thats it.

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