In a standard 5-card poker hand for 1 deck:

Calculate P(Choose Your Hand)

Choose Your Hand Hands

Calculate the probability of drawing a TARGETHEARTRATEFORAGE40

Calculate Total 5 Card hands

Choose 5 cards from 52 cards

Total Hands  =  52!
  (52-5)! * 5!

Total Hands  =  52!
  47! * 5!

Total Hands  =  (52 * 51 * 50 * 49 * 48) * 47!
  47! * (5 * 4 * 3 * 2 * 1)

Cancelling the 47!, we get:

Total Hands  =  311,875,200
  120

Total Hands = 2,598,960

Build Probability

Calculate the probabilty of each card

Calculate the probability of drawing Ace

Ace

There are 4 A cards in the deck

There are 52 total cards in the deck

Probability of drawing A  =  4
  52

Calculate the probabilty of each card

Calculate the probability of drawing Ace

Ace

There are 3 A cards in the deck

There are 51 total cards in the deck

Probability of drawing A  =  3
  51

Calculate the probabilty of each card

Calculate the probability of drawing Ace

Ace

There are 2 A cards in the deck

There are 50 total cards in the deck

Probability of drawing A  =  2
  50

Calculate the probabilty of each card

Calculate the probability of drawing Ace

Ace

There are 1 A cards in the deck

There are 49 total cards in the deck

Probability of drawing A  =  1
  49

Calculate the probabilty of each card

Calculate the probability of drawing 4

4

There are 4 4 cards in the deck

There are 48 total cards in the deck

Probability of drawing 4  =  4
  48

Calculate final probability:

Since each card draw is independent

Multiply each of our 5 card draws

P(TARGETHEARTRATEFORAGE40)  =  4 x 3 x 2 x 1 x 4
  52 x 51 x 50 x 49 x 48

P(TARGETHEARTRATEFORAGE40)  =  96
  311875200

Reduce top and bottom by 96

GCF = Greatest Common Factor

P(Choose Your Hand)  =  96
  311,875,200

GCF for 1 and 3248700 = 96

P(Choose Your Hand)  =  1
  3,248,700

Final Answer


Decimal probability = 3.078E-7


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Decimal probability = 3.078E-7
How does the 5 Card Poker Hand Calculator work?
Free 5 Card Poker Hand Calculator - Calculates and details probabilities of the 10 different types of poker hands given 1 player and 1 deck of cards.
This calculator has 1 input.
What 1 formula is used for the 5 Card Poker Hand Calculator?
Total Possible 5 Card Hands = 2,598,960
What 4 concepts are covered in the 5 Card Poker Hand Calculator?
5 card poker hand
combination
a mathematical technique that determines the number of possible arrangements in a collection of items where the order of the selection does not matter
nPr = n!/r!(n - r)!
factorial
The product of an integer and all the integers below it
probability
the likelihood of an event happening. This value is always between 0 and 1.
P(Event Happening) = Number of Ways the Even Can Happen / Total Number of Outcomes
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