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.

How to study Five-Card Draw Poker starting hands

Five-Card Draw starting hands combine made pairs and stronger hands with selected straight and flush draws. Position and the number of cards opponents replace help determine how thinly a made hand can be played.

Is this Five-Card Draw Poker GTO?

This chart is an interactive starting-hand model, not a complete equilibrium solve. Use the Five-Card Draw Poker equity calculator to test exact cards and draw choices, while remembering that equity alone does not model betting strategy.

What should I study next?

Start with the Five-Card Draw Poker rules, compare how the range changes by table format and width, then use the calculator to test a specific hand against an exact opponent or range.

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