According to this,
http://poker.sportinglife.com/Strategies/story_55895.shtml it is 1 in 72,193
Can someone confirm that?
I figured it had to be a lot more rare than that.
Assume you have any card.
The odds that the next one is one of the other 4 that match is 4/51
The odds of the 3rd one being one of the remaining 3 is 3/50
and so on.
So it seems to me that the odds of being dealt a pat straight flush would be:
4/51 * 3/50 * 2/49 * 1/48
This is 0.0000040016
or 249,899 to 1.
Am I figuring this correctly?
If not, how do you do this properly?
The reason this came up is that I was dealt a pat straight flush tonight playing 5-Card draw.
What is even more amazing is that on two other occasions, I was dealt a 4-card straight flush -- and I think I've only ever seen a couple of those before.