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Old 06-11-2003, 01:47 PM
Mano Mano is offline
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Default Re: Best 3 card hand out of five cards

Let's see which there are more of.

For a straight flush, you can have from a 3 high to an A high, so there are 12 straight flushes for each suit, or a total of 48 ways to get a straight flush.

For Trips there are 4 different ways to get trips for each rank, 13 different ranks, so there are 52 ways of getting trips.

Therefore straight flushes are harder to get and should be ranked higher than trips.
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