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What are the odds of being dealt a royal flush in five-card poker?

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Five playing cards showing a flush in clubs: king, ten, eight, seven, and five of clubs. — poker A poker hand containing five cards of the same suit but not in sequence is called a flush.

In five-card poker, the odds of being dealt a royal flush are 1 in 649,740.1

A royal flush consists of an ace, king, queen, jack, and 10, all in the same suit, and it is the highest-ranking hand in the game. Because there are 2,598,960 possible five-card hands that can be dealt from a standard 52-card pack, the rarity of this specific combination reflects its status as the best possible hand.231