The Hand Frequency in a Royal Flush

The appeal of playing the video poker game is the chance to win a royal flush hand that gives the highest winning from a video poker machine. Most video poker players aspire to win the royal flush because of the highest jackpot that they can take home from playing with the video poker machines.

The rarity of occurrence of a royal flush in a video poker game also impose a great challenge among video poker players who seek the thrill of hitting one as they play the game of video poker.

The probability of hitting a royal flush will usually demand a poker player to play a hand frequency of at least 40,000 hands. This is not a simple statistic to reach and it is quite possible that not all poker players will hit a royal flush at all.

This is due to the fact that not all poker players are able to play video poker long enough to play that many hand frequencies in order to meet the result of hitting a royal flush.

Moreover, without winning a royal flush, the expected return of playing the video poker machine will fall below 99.5%. The poker player should know about the probability of winning the royal flush by understanding the game of video poker.

Each player is randomly dealt with 5 cards from the 52 card deck. With this number of cards on a deck there is about 2,598,960 drawing hand possibilities. Out of this number there will only be 4 hands that can give a royal flush which is one for every suit. This is equivalent to hitting one royal flush for every 649,740 hands.

Because playing video poker allows the players to retain or discard their cards at the initial drawing of cards, this statistics is lowered down to the hand frequency of about 40,000 hands to hit a royal flush.

This hand frequency is only stated on the average thereby giving the poker player a chance to win a flush higher or lower than 40,000 hands. This is due to the video poker game's volatility where the longer the player plays video poker the chance to beat the casino usually evens out.

The player will get a short and long term expected returns from the game of video poker which can affect the bingo player's bankroll. Playing video poker games are exciting due to the swings of the game experienced by the players that add to the thrill, excitement and challenge of winning a royal flush from the game of video poker.