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Counting poker hands · Part 2 of 3
A five-card hand is dealt from a standard 52-card deck. Order within the hand does not matter.
How many of those hands are flushes, counting straight flushes as flushes?
- A5,148
- B1,287, the number of ways to pick five ranks
- C1,317,888, choosing the suit for each of the five cards separately
- D5,108
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