Five-card draw · traditional high poker

Five-Card Draw Poker starting hands.

Make the highest standard five-card poker hand. Players receive five private cards, bet, exchange any permitted number once, then bet again before showdown. Pairs, two pair, trips, straights, flushes, full houses, quads, and straight flushes all play in the usual high-hand order.

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Top 30% of hands

Move from a tight value-heavy range toward wider drawing hands.

2% · premium30% · balanced100% · all hands

How the range plays

Draw 360.9%
Range example88
Draw 121.5%
Range example3322
Other classKJ98
Draw 215.1%
Range exampleTTA
Other class222
Pat2.5%
Range example98765
Other classAAAKK

Hand Class

Top 30%

See which made hands and drawing classes enter the selected starting range. Open a row for its exact mix and cutoff hand.

Made / Pat5 breakdowns2.5%Pat
Straight flushPat0.2%
Four of a kindPat3.2%
Full housePat19.0%
FlushPat25.9%
StraightPat51.7%
Three of a kind2 breakdowns7.0%Draw 1 · Draw 24449
Draw 1Three of a kind17.2%4449
Draw 2Three of a kind82.8%222
Two pair1 breakdown15.8%Draw 13322
Draw 1Two pair100%3322
One pair2 breakdowns70.2%Draw 2 · Draw 3TTA
Draw 2One pair13.2%TTA
Draw 3One pair86.8%88
Draw / High Card2 breakdowns4.4%Draw 1
Draw 1Straight-flush draw15.6%5432
Draw 1Flush draw84.4%KJ98

Main-row shares are percentages of the selected Top 30% range. Expanded percentages show the mix inside that hand class.

Range mix

30% selected
30%top range
Draw 360.9%Draw 121.5%Draw 215.1%Pat2.5%

How strategy shifts

Top 2–100%

Starting range by hand class