Hands and board
Type cards like As Kh Td 9c (rank 6 to A, suit s h d c). Leave a hand empty for a random one.
Equity
- Maths reviewed by Josh Miller
- Tested by Diana Westfield
A short deck poker odds calculator is a different tool from a normal one, because the deck is. With the 2s to 5s gone, 36 cards are left and every hand changes value. In Texas Hold’em, queens are about a 54-46 favourite over ace-king suited. In short deck the free CasinoCalcs calculator above puts the ace-king ahead, 51% to 49%. Fewer low cards means more straights, more connected boards and much closer pre-flop fights.
Short deck poker: the hand rankings
Two rules change. A flush beats a full house, because with only nine cards in each suit flushes are rarer. And in most games, including the big online rooms and high-stakes events, three of a kind beats a straight. The ace still plays low: A-6-7-8-9 is the bottom straight.
| Best hand from 7 cards | How often |
|---|---|
| Straight flush | 0.12% |
| Four of a kind | 0.52% |
| Flush | 2.1% |
| Full house | 7.6% |
| Three of a kind | 7.2% |
| Straight | 14.0% |
| Two pair | 37.8% |
| One pair | 27.8% |
| High card | 2.8% |
From 400,000 random seven-card hands. Straights come up nearly twice as often as trips, which is why trips are ranked higher. Some home games still play straight over trips, so the calculator has a switch.
How the odds shift
- Pairs lose value. With so many high cards out, an overpair gets outdrawn far more often.
- Connectors gain. 8-9 suited flops a straight draw constantly. An open-ended draw has 8 outs out of 31 unseen cards after the flop, about a 46% chance by the river.
- Set over set and flush over flush happen more. Big hands meet big hands.
For standard 52-card Hold’em, use the poker odds calculator. The Omaha odds calculator handles four-card hands, and the poker hand rankings page has the normal order.
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