7 Card Stud Poker is considered one of the more popular variants of Poker in Online Casino. This might be attributed to the large number of players which can take place in one game, thus also operating as a social agent, and also to the relative simplicity of the game. The game is stylishly organized into "streets", with the name of the street mimicking the number of cards you are dealt each round (for example, on the first round players are dealt three cards, hence, this is the "Third Street"). The aim of this article is to present some Tables and info about odds and probabilities present in standard 7 Card Stud Poker.
Odds of hands
A cardinal element of winning 7 Card Stud Poker is to understand the different hands you can be dealt. If you're dealt a three of a kind on Third Street, you're basically good, but this is really dependent on the number of players. Below illustrated are odds of being dealt certain hands.
Three of a kind – 424:1
3 Suited Cards- 18:1
Any pair – 5:1
Completing a Straight with first 3 Cards sequenced – 6:1
Completing a Flush with first 3 Cards suited – 5:1
Completing a full house with three of a kind + Three other cards in 6th street – 4:1
Completing a full house with first four cards combined for a pair – 3.5:1
Completing two pair if starting with a pair in the 3rd street – 1.4:1
Improving at least two pair if beginning with straight flush draw – 1.2:1
Odds of Flushes & Straights
Draw one card to a flush – 1:45
Holding a double open ended straight – 1:5
Holding an open ended straight – 1:11
Holding an inside straight – 1:11
Holding a double open ended straight flush – 1:23
Holding an inside straight flush – 1:46
Being rolled up with three of a kind, improving to full house – 1:3
Mathematical probabilities
In 2000, Mathematicians in Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, made calculations to try and determine the exact number of 7 Stud Card Poker hands. Below is a table showing the probabilities the mathematicians came up with:
Hand |
Number |
Probability |
Straight Flush |
41,584 |
.00031 |
4-of-a-kind |
224,848 |
.0017 |
Full House |
3,473,184 |
.026 |
Flush |
4,047,644 |
.030 |
Straight |
6,180,020 |
.046 |
3-of-a-kind |
6,461,620 |
.048 |
Two pairs |
31,433,400 |
.235 |
Pair |
58,627,800 |
.438 |
High card |
23,294,460 |
.174 |
Keeping it academic, below is another table of 7 Card Stud Poker combinations as composed by the Wizard of Odds.
Hand |
Combinations |
Probabilities |
Royal flush |
4,324 |
0.00003232 |
Straight flush |
37,260 |
0.00027851 |
Four of a kind |
224,848 |
0.00168067 |
Full house |
3,473,184 |
0.02596102 |
Flush |
4,047,644 |
0.03025494 |
Straight |
6,180,020 |
0.04619382 |
Three of a kind |
6,461,620 |
0.04829870 |
Two pair |
31,433,400 |
0.23495536 |
Pair |
58,627,800 |
0.43822546 |
Ace high or less |
23,294,460 |
0.17411920 |
Total |
133,784,560 |
1.00000000 |