Poker Tie Hands
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This post works with 5-card Poker hands drawn from a standard deck of 52 cards. The discussion is mostly mathematical, using the Poker hands to illustrate counting techniques and calculation of probabilities
Working with poker hands is an excellent way to illustrate the counting techniques covered previously in this blog – multiplication principle, permutation and combination (also covered here). There are 2,598,960 many possible 5-card Poker hands. Thus the probability of obtaining any one specific hand is 1 in 2,598,960 (roughly 1 in 2.6 million). The probability of obtaining a given type of hands (e.g. three of a kind) is the number of possible hands for that type over 2,598,960. Thus this is primarily a counting exercise.
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Preliminary Calculation
Usually the order in which the cards are dealt is not important (except in the case of stud poker). Thus the following three examples point to the same poker hand. The only difference is the order in which the cards are dealt.
These are the same hand. Order is not important.
The number of possible 5-card poker hands would then be the same as the number of 5-element subsets of 52 objects. The following is the total number of 5-card poker hands drawn from a standard deck of 52 cards.
The notation is called the binomial coefficient and is pronounced “n choose r”, which is identical to the number of -element subsets of a set with objects. Other notations for are , and . Many calculators have a function for . Of course the calculation can also be done by definition by first calculating factorials.
Thus the probability of obtaining a specific hand (say, 2, 6, 10, K, A, all diamond) would be 1 in 2,598,960. If 5 cards are randomly drawn, what is the probability of getting a 5-card hand consisting of all diamond cards? It is
This is definitely a very rare event (less than 0.05% chance of happening). The numerator 1,287 is the number of hands consisting of all diamond cards, which is obtained by the following calculation.
The reasoning for the above calculation is that to draw a 5-card hand consisting of all diamond, we are drawing 5 cards from the 13 diamond cards and drawing zero cards from the other 39 cards. Since (there is only one way to draw nothing), is the number of hands with all diamonds.
If 5 cards are randomly drawn, what is the probability of getting a 5-card hand consisting of cards in one suit? The probability of getting all 5 cards in another suit (say heart) would also be 1287/2598960. So we have the following derivation.
Thus getting a hand with all cards in one suit is 4 times more likely than getting one with all diamond, but is still a rare event (with about a 0.2% chance of happening). Some of the higher ranked poker hands are in one suit but with additional strict requirements. They will be further discussed below.
Another example. What is the probability of obtaining a hand that has 3 diamonds and 2 hearts? The answer is 22308/2598960 = 0.008583433. The number of “3 diamond, 2 heart” hands is calculated as follows:
One theme that emerges is that the multiplication principle is behind the numerator of a poker hand probability. For example, we can think of the process to get a 5-card hand with 3 diamonds and 2 hearts in three steps. The first is to draw 3 cards from the 13 diamond cards, the second is to draw 2 cards from the 13 heart cards, and the third is to draw zero from the remaining 26 cards. The third step can be omitted since the number of ways of choosing zero is 1. In any case, the number of possible ways to carry out that 2-step (or 3-step) process is to multiply all the possibilities together.
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The Poker Hands
Here’s a ranking chart of the Poker hands.
The chart lists the rankings with an example for each ranking. The examples are a good reminder of the definitions. The highest ranking of them all is the royal flush, which consists of 5 consecutive cards in one suit with the highest card being Ace. There is only one such hand in each suit. Thus the chance for getting a royal flush is 4 in 2,598,960.
Royal flush is a specific example of a straight flush, which consists of 5 consecutive cards in one suit. There are 10 such hands in one suit. So there are 40 hands for straight flush in total. A flush is a hand with 5 cards in the same suit but not in consecutive order (or not in sequence). Thus the requirement for flush is considerably more relaxed than a straight flush. A straight is like a straight flush in that the 5 cards are in sequence but the 5 cards in a straight are not of the same suit. For a more in depth discussion on Poker hands, see the Wikipedia entry on Poker hands.
The counting for some of these hands is done in the next section. The definition of the hands can be inferred from the above chart. For the sake of completeness, the following table lists out the definition.
Definitions of Poker Hands
| Poker Hand | Definition | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Royal Flush | A, K, Q, J, 10, all in the same suit |
| 2 | Straight Flush | Five consecutive cards, |
| all in the same suit | ||
| 3 | Four of a Kind | Four cards of the same rank, |
| one card of another rank | ||
| 4 | Full House | Three of a kind with a pair |
| 5 | Flush | Five cards of the same suit, |
| not in consecutive order | ||
| 6 | Straight | Five consecutive cards, |
| not of the same suit | ||
| 7 | Three of a Kind | Three cards of the same rank, |
| 2 cards of two other ranks | ||
| 8 | Two Pair | Two cards of the same rank, |
| two cards of another rank, | ||
| one card of a third rank | ||
| 9 | One Pair | Three cards of the same rank, |
| 3 cards of three other ranks | ||
| 10 | High Card | If no one has any of the above hands, |
| the player with the highest card wins |
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Counting Poker Hands
Straight Flush
Counting from A-K-Q-J-10, K-Q-J-10-9, Q-J-10-9-8, …, 6-5-4-3-2 to 5-4-3-2-A, there are 10 hands that are in sequence in a given suit. So there are 40 straight flush hands all together.
Four of a Kind
There is only one way to have a four of a kind for a given rank. The fifth card can be any one of the remaining 48 cards. Thus there are 48 possibilities of a four of a kind in one rank. Thus there are 13 x 48 = 624 many four of a kind in total.
Full House
Let’s fix two ranks, say 2 and 8. How many ways can we have three of 2 and two of 8? We are choosing 3 cards out of the four 2’s and choosing 2 cards out of the four 8’s. That would be = 4 x 6 = 24. But the two ranks can be other ranks too. How many ways can we pick two ranks out of 13? That would be 13 x 12 = 156. So the total number of possibilities for Full House is
Note that the multiplication principle is at work here. When we pick two ranks, the number of ways is 13 x 12 = 156. Why did we not use = 78?
Flush
There are = 1,287 possible hands with all cards in the same suit. Recall that there are only 10 straight flush on a given suit. Thus of all the 5-card hands with all cards in a given suit, there are 1,287-10 = 1,277 hands that are not straight flush. Thus the total number of flush hands is 4 x 1277 = 5,108.
Straight
There are 10 five-consecutive sequences in 13 cards (as shown in the explanation for straight flush in this section). In each such sequence, there are 4 choices for each card (one for each suit). Thus the number of 5-card hands with 5 cards in sequence is . Then we need to subtract the number of straight flushes (40) from this number. Thus the number of straight is 10240 – 10 = 10,200.
Three of a Kind
There are 13 ranks (from A, K, …, to 2). We choose one of them to have 3 cards in that rank and two other ranks to have one card in each of those ranks. The following derivation reflects all the choosing in this process.
Two Pair and One Pair
These two are left as exercises.
High Card
The count is the complement that makes up 2,598,960.
The following table gives the counts of all the poker hands. The probability is the fraction of the 2,598,960 hands that meet the requirement of the type of hands in question. Note that royal flush is not listed. This is because it is included in the count for straight flush. Royal flush is omitted so that he counts add up to 2,598,960.
Probabilities of Poker Hands
| Poker Hand | Count | Probability | |
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| 2 | Straight Flush | 40 | 0.0000154 |
| 3 | Four of a Kind | 624 | 0.0002401 |
| 4 | Full House | 3,744 | 0.0014406 |
| 5 | Flush | 5,108 | 0.0019654 |
| 6 | Straight | 10,200 | 0.0039246 |
| 7 | Three of a Kind | 54,912 | 0.0211285 |
| 8 | Two Pair | 123,552 | 0.0475390 |
| 9 | One Pair | 1,098,240 | 0.4225690 |
| 10 | High Card | 1,302,540 | 0.5011774 |
| Total | 2,598,960 | 1.0000000 |
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2017 – Dan Ma
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What Happens When You Tie A Hand In Poker
Poker newcomers might get confused by some out of the ordinary things in poker. Or it can be as simple as basic poker rules and how hand ranking is determined.
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As a seasoned poker pro player, I can, on the other hand, instantly see who won the hand, not just in Holdem, but also in other poker variants. yes in Omaha also.
Don’t worry; this comes with experience, and we all need to start somewhere. Just move one step at a time, and soon you will know the essential poker rules on the fly.
In this article, I will explain to you in detail what happens if two hands tie in poker and the usage of kickers.
So, what happens if two hands tie in poker? If two or more players have the samehand, then the pot will get split equally between them after the rake isdeducted. Players will have the same hand if their five-card combination is ofthe same values. That is where the confusion might come from.
All five cards must be of the same rank. Only then will the players tie, and pot will get split. If they have the same card rank, but not all other cards are of equal value, then the person with a higher side card will win. In poker jargon, this is also called having a better kicker. A most common scenario of this is when both players have a pair.
An excellent example of this is as follows. You have AK, and an opponent has AQ on the AT345 board. In this case, you win, even though you both have a pair of aces. Your 5 card combination is higher than the opponent’s. You have AAKT5, and your opponent has AAQT5. That is why your pair of aces with a king kicker beats the opponent’s pair of aces with a queen kicker.
Elimination in a tournament when you tie
There is a scenario in a tournament. It is 1 player left to bust before players are in the prize pool, which in poker jargon is known as the bubble. It is 11 players left, with 10 people getting paid.
2 short stacks, both have the same 5 card combination hand at showdown. Bigger stack has the better hand and knocks both of them out.
Then the first person that went allin, and lost, would finish as the bubble on 11th spot. The person who went all-in after him would be knocked out and finish the tournament on the 10th spot and get paid.
What is a kicker in poker
Kicker, or as some call it, a side card, is a card in poker that doesn’t determine the rank of the card. It is still used in getting the best 5 card combination and is used to determine the winner of the hand. If players have the same rank and same kickers, then the pot would be split.
For example: on the board is AK897. One player holds AT, and other player holds A5. So both players have a pair of aces, but they have different kickers.
Player one has AAKT9 (best 5 card combination he can have), and player two has the best combination of AAK98. Player one kickers are K, T, and 9; player 2 kickers are K, 9, and 8. Therefore the player one would win because he has better kickers – his 5 card combination is better.
When does a kicker count?
Firstly, if you are confused about kickers and when they count and when they don’t, then remember the following. For every single hand in poker, a combination of the best rank of 5 cards count. You need to use 5 cards all the time. So at all times, 5 cards count towards your card value.
You can either use 2, one or none of the cards you were dealt. or community cards you can either use all 5, 4 or only 3. But total number of cards you need to use is five.
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If you have a pair, then you used 2 cards already, now you need to use 3 more cards to get your 5 ard ranking. Look at the example above with AK and AQ; kickers count there because each player has a pair plus they need to use 3 best possible cards more.
In the same way, do 2 pairs have a kicker, so does the 4 of a kind hand. Even your sets have two kickers. Straights, full houses, flushes, and royal flush have no kickers. For them, you already used 5 card hand combination. Note that the person with higher straight or a flush or bigger full house will still win, as he has a better hand ranking than the lower counterpart.
If you want to read more about kickers, then here is a link to Wikipedia.
When poker pot is split
When a poker pot is split, it gets divided equally to the number of players that participated in the showdown. If only 2 players would be involved in the hand from the beginning, then due to rake, each of them would get slightly less than they invested in the pot.
That is why you must start playing on a poker room that has the best rakeback deals. If you wonder what rakeback is and which poker sites have the best deals, then read this detailed article I wrote about rakeback.
Nuts on the board
When I am playing online, I sometimes see people betting huge amounts where the board itself is nuts.
Examples of nuts on board:
- The royal flush on board
- Nut straight on board
- 4 of a kind and an ace on board
In these scenarios, it makes no sense to bet huge. In fact it makes sense to not bet at all if a nuts is present on the board. Only if a person doesn’t pay attention to the board, they might fold.
Maybe it had happened to me once that someone would fold their hand when the nuts were present on board. In 5 million hands. It makes no sense to bet because you only cost yourself money by making the pot bigger.
More significant is the pot, the bigger will be the rake. The pot will still get split up equally among all the players that went to showdown because everyone will have the same hand. Just your share now will be slightly smaller because the poker room will take more rake for themselves. And the percentage of the pot is equally distributed after reducing it for the rake amount.
It can happen that pot cannot get divided exactly equally among players due to rounding. Then the first player to the left of the button that was involved in showdown might get one small blind more than others. Or in online cash games, one player might get one cent more than others as you cannot divide 1 cent.
Related Questions:
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If two players have a straight, who wins? If two players had a straight at showdown, the one with a higher straight combination would win. For example, the first player has KQ and a K high straight of J9T24 board, and the second player has Q8 and therefore only Q high straight. So the first player would win because his straight combination is higher. If both players would have the same straight combination, then the pot would get split equally between them.
Can there be a tie in poker? Of course, there can be a tie in poker. We need to distinguish between the different meanings of a tie in poker.
- One is having the same 5 hand card combinations in cash games.
- Another one could happen when players decide to split the remaining prize pool in the tournament.
- Technically a tie could also be in a satellite, where players that qualify would receive the same reward, which is a ticket to the tournament. None of the players would receive more.
- I remember one scene in a live poker tournament. Two players were eliminated from a tournament at the same time on the bubble. It happened on two different tables. So the floorperson decided it is a tie between them, and each of them would receive half of the prize pool that was for one player.
What happens if two players have the same high card? If two players have the same high card, then the one that holds the second-highest card wins. In poker, the person who has the strongest 5 hand card combination wins. So two players could have 4 cards the same, but 5th wouldn’t be. Then the person who has a higher 5th card would win.