The Deck powers two free, interactive poker tools — every poker hand ranked weakest to strongest, with the exact odds of being dealt each one, plus a live Texas Hold'em win calculator.
Pick any five cards and this meter rates the hand two ways: how strong it is on a 0–1000 scale, and how rare a random draw that strong or better actually is — every one of the 2,598,960 possible five-card hands enumerated exactly, not estimated. Tick Include Joker to add a wild card and unlock Five of a Kind.
The meter scores a finished hand; this answers the question that decides a pot: given the cards you hold, how often do you win? Enter your hole cards, add any community cards, set how many opponents you face, and it plays out the remaining deck for your win, tie and loss probability.
Poker hands rank by how unlikely they are to occur. In Texas Hold'em you make your best five-card hand from your two hole cards and the five community cards; this is the order every variant of poker agrees on, from the unbeatable Royal Flush down to a bare High Card.
| # | Hand | What it is | Example |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Royal Flush | A, K, Q, J, 10, all one suit | A♠ K♠ Q♠ J♠ 10♠ |
| 2 | Straight Flush | Five in sequence, all one suit | 9♥ 8♥ 7♥ 6♥ 5♥ |
| 3 | Four of a Kind | All four of one rank | Q♠ Q♥ Q♦ Q♣ 7♦ |
| 4 | Full House | Three of a kind plus a pair | K♣ K♦ K♠ 4♥ 4♠ |
| 5 | Flush | Five of one suit, not in sequence | J♦ 9♦ 7♦ 4♦ 2♦ |
| 6 | Straight | Five in sequence, mixed suits | 8♠ 7♥ 6♦ 5♣ 4♠ |
| 7 | Three of a Kind | Three cards of one rank | 5♥ 5♦ 5♣ K♠ 2♦ |
| 8 | Two Pair | Two different pairs | A♦ A♣ 8♥ 8♠ 3♦ |
| 9 | One Pair | Two cards of one rank | 10♥ 10♠ K♦ 6♣ 2♥ |
| 10 | High Card | None of the above — highest card plays | A♣ J♦ 8♠ 5♥ 2♣ |
Out of the 2,598,960 distinct five-card hands in a standard 52-card deck, here is how many produce each ranking — and how often you would be dealt one. These are the exact figures behind the Hand Strength Meter’s rarity scale.
| Hand | Combinations | Probability | Odds |
|---|---|---|---|
| Royal Flush | 4 | 0.000154% | 1 in 649,740 |
| Straight Flush | 36 | 0.00139% | 1 in 72,193 |
| Four of a Kind | 624 | 0.0240% | 1 in 4,165 |
| Full House | 3,744 | 0.144% | 1 in 694 |
| Flush | 5,108 | 0.197% | 1 in 509 |
| Straight | 10,200 | 0.392% | 1 in 255 |
| Three of a Kind | 54,912 | 2.11% | 1 in 47 |
| Two Pair | 123,552 | 4.75% | 1 in 21 |
| One Pair | 1,098,240 | 42.26% | 1 in 2.4 |
| High Card | 1,302,540 | 50.12% | 1 in 2.0 |
The surprise for most players: half of all five-card hands are nothing but a high card, and better than 92% are a pair or worse. Anything from a straight upward is genuinely rare — which is exactly why those hands win pots.
The Deck is a complete 52-card set issued on Breakout Chain — among the earliest NFTs ever minted, distributed provably fairly and mined directly as coinbase rewards back in 2016. Playing cards are the whole point of the project, so building the definitive, freely usable reference for the game those cards were made for was the obvious thing to do.
Every card you pick in the tools above is a real card from The Deck. Browse the full set, read the on-chain provenance, or meet the architect behind it.
The Royal Flush — Ace, King, Queen, Jack and Ten all of the same suit. It's the top of the straight-flush family and cannot be beaten. There are only four of them in a 52-card deck, one per suit, making it a 1-in-649,740 draw.
Exactly 1 in 649,740 for a specific five-card deal — there are four Royal Flushes among 2,598,960 possible hands. In Texas Hold'em, where you see seven cards, the odds improve to roughly 1 in 30,940.
Yes. A Flush (five cards of one suit) is rarer than a Straight (five in sequence), so it ranks higher. A Straight only beats three of a kind and below.
Three of a Kind beats Two Pair. Trips occur about once in every 47 hands, while two pair shows up about once in 21 — the rarer hand wins.
It takes your known cards — your hole cards and any community cards — then evaluates the remaining deck to find every way the hand can finish. When the number of unknown cards is small it enumerates them all exactly; when it's large it simulates many random run-outs. The share of outcomes you win becomes your equity, expressed as a win / tie / loss percentage.
A kicker is a card that doesn't form part of your main combination but breaks ties between otherwise equal hands. If two players both hold a pair of Aces, the player with the higher next card — the kicker — wins.
Five of a Kind is only possible when a wild card (a Joker) is in play — for example four Kings plus the Joker. It isn't part of standard Texas Hold'em, but with the Joker enabled in the Hand Strength Meter it becomes the top-ranking hand, above a Royal Flush.
2,598,960 — the number of ways to choose five cards from a 52-card deck. Every rarity figure on this page is calculated against that total.