Re: Best 3 card hand out of five cards
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-Sf's beginning with A thru J can get their other two cards from any 48 of the remaining 49 cards (the 49th card would be the next highest card in the sf and so you can't count it twice.) There are four different suits to choose from so
12 sf's x 4 suits x 48C2 blanks = 54,144 sf's
-Sf's beginning with the Q can get their other two cards from all 49 of the remaining cards.
1 sf x 4 suits x 49C2 blanks =4,704
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I think the problem is that you're counting some straight flushes twice. The way you count the A23 SFs also includes the 4 five-card hands A23QK suited, which should be counted as AKQ SFs.
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