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Royal Flush is extremely rare, with a probability of around 0.000001539 in the initial five-card hands. Straight Flush follows with 0.00001539, while pairs are common (42% of hands)
 
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A Royal Flush is so rare that if you wait for it, your coffee will get cold, your tea will get cold, and the table might even close 😅
Most of the time, you’ll end up with a simple pair… and that 42% is basically poker telling you: learn how to play what you’re dealt, not what you’re dreaming of.
Poker doesn’t reward those who wait for miracles — it rewards those who know how to handle average hands.
 
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I get a Royal Flush about once a year. Definitely not more often than that. I've been playing poker for about seven years and have had a Royal Flush about seven or eight times.
 
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I only got it 1 or 2 times. It's pretty rare.
 
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The probabilities show why poker is a game of small, repeated decisions. Rare hands are anecdotal; the edge comes from exploiting mistakes in common situations.
 
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In 4 years of more or less active play, 2-3k tournaments, I still haven't collected a royal flush, but I folded it twice, but there would have been 1 card each, which is not cool:D
 
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The numbers you have quoted are for 5 card "straight" poker, who plays those crusty old games these days?:ROFLMAO:
 
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so rare, i did get it once in over 20 years online, but i also received it once in my monthly poker game! Thrill of a lifetime!
 
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It’s a good reminder that winning poker isn’t about hoping for miracles—it’s about playing the hand you actually have and making repeatable, profitable decisions.
 
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I know that e{me hands at| rare , some combinations of hands are |extremely hard to happen . But unfortunately I see far too many times very bad beats , crazy hands only to lose patience and money . Espe6ghis happens late in a tourney , so
 
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I keep trying to engrave those odds in my head. I got tired of losing chips because I followed Turn and River believing that I was going to close the sequence. It's important to have these numbers aligned and thus lose less or win more chips.
 
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Marios413 said:
Royal Flush is extremely rare, with a probability of around 0.000001539 in the initial five-card hands. Straight Flush follows with 0.00001539, while pairs are common (42% of hands)
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Yes, but is the calculation another for let's say straight flush if you are already holding any two suited connectors? I would really like to know. Like if you have 4-6 of spades or hearts or clubs.
 
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