how many possible hands in a deck of cards

[DeadRed]

THANK YOU!! I was so tired of going through those numbers that I didn't want to run through them all again. I either can't type, read, or write. Can't figure out which. It changes periodically. [img]/images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img]

[donkeyradish]

I guess in stud the number of rankings is much fewer

Eg. If you have trips the kickers are irrelevant because only one person at a time can ever have 333.

[DeadRed]

No, this number is game-independent. As long as you are playing 5 cards to make a hand (None of that crazy "I have 3 pair" business) then this count is accurate. There are 7462 different poker hands as listed in the posts above.