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Poker hand combos calculator
Count exactly how many ways a starting hand or range can be dealt, and see how the cards you hold remove combinations from your opponent. Exact counts, no simulation, nothing saved.
A specific pocket pair has 6 combos, a specific suited hand has 4 and a specific offsuit hand has 12. There are 169 distinct starting hands but 1,326 ways to be dealt two cards. Every card you can see (yours or on the board) removes combos from what an opponent can hold, which is what players call a blocker effect.
Combo counter
Type a hand or range using standard notation. Add the cards you can see to remove them. Counts are exact; percentages are of all 1,326 starting hands and of the hands still possible after your known cards.
Notation: 77 (one pair), 77+ (77 to AA), 22-88, AKs (suited), AKo (offsuit), AK (both), ATs+ (ATs to AKs), A5s-A2s, JTs-54s. Separate with commas or spaces. Cards: rank A K Q J T 9-2 then suit s h d c.
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Combo quiz
Ten questions per session. Work it out first; the explanation after each answer shows the counting. Practice only, no chips or stakes.
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How the counting works
A starting hand is two cards from a 52-card deck, so there are 52 x 51 / 2 = 1,326 possible hands. Players group them into 169 classes because suits only matter as "same suit" or "different suits". The classes split three ways:
| Type | Example | Combos each | Classes | Total combos |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pocket pair | 77 | 6 | 13 | 78 |
| Suited | AKs | 4 | 78 | 312 |
| Offsuit | AKo | 12 | 78 | 936 |
| All | 169 | 1,326 |
- Pairs: choose 2 of the 4 suits, so 4 x 3 / 2 = 6.
- Suited: both cards must share a suit, and there are 4 suits, so 4.
- Offsuit: 4 suits for the first rank times the 3 remaining suits for the second rank, so 4 x 3 = 12.
- "AK" with no suffix means suited and offsuit together: 4 + 12 = 16.
Pocket pairs make up 78 / 1,326, about 5.9% of deals (roughly one hand in 17). Suited hands make up 312 / 1,326, about 23.5%.
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Blockers: how known cards remove combos
An opponent cannot hold a card you are holding or that is on the board. Each known card deletes every combo that contains it. Worked examples, all checked by this calculator:
| You can see | Opponent's hand | Combos before | Combos after | Why |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A♠ | AK | 16 | 12 | The 4 combos that use A♠ are gone. |
| A♠ K♥ | AK | 16 | 9 | 4 use A♠, 4 use K♥, and A♠K♥ is in both, so 7 are removed. |
| A♠ | AA | 6 | 3 | Only pairs made from the other three aces remain: 3. |
| A♠ A♣ | AA | 6 | 1 | Only A♦A♥ remains. |
| A♠ K♥ | 6 | 6 | No queen is known, so nothing is removed. |
This is arithmetic about which cards are left, not advice on what to do. Whether a combo count should change your decision depends on the rest of the hand, which this page does not judge.
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Range notation used here
The notation matches what most poker guides use. A plus sign moves the lower card up until it reaches the higher one, so ATs+ means ATs, AJs, AQs and AKs, while 77+ means every pair from 77 to AA. A dash sets both ends: 22-88 is seven pairs, A5s-A2s is four suited hands, and JTs-54s slides a connected pair of ranks down from JTs to 54s. The calculator rejects anything it cannot read instead of guessing, and counts overlapping entries once.
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FAQ
Why are there 169 starting hands but 1,326 combos?
169 counts classes such as AKs and AKo. 1,326 counts every specific two-card holding including suits: 13 pairs x 6 + 78 suited x 4 + 78 offsuit x 12 = 1,326.
Why does holding one ace remove four AK combos?
Each of the four aces pairs with four kings, so every ace is in four AK combos . Holding one ace deletes the four that contain it, leaving 12 of 16.
Is this exact or a simulation?
Exact. The calculator lists every suit combination and removes the ones that use a known card. Nothing is sampled or random, except which questions the quiz asks.
Does it say how likely an opponent is to hold a hand?
It says how many ways a hand can be dealt from the cards that are still unknown. Real opponents do not hold random hands, so treat the percentages as counting, not as predictions about a player.
Is anything stored or uploaded?
No. Everything runs in your browser and is gone when you close the page.
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Sources and checks
Counts were verified by exhaustive enumeration of the 52-card deck and checked against the 169 / 1,326 / 78 / 936 figures on Wikipedia's Texas hold 'em starting hands page (checked 8 November 2026). Blocker ideas follow the card-removal explanation in Deuces Cracked; its worked pocket-aces figure was not used because holding two aces leaves 1 of 6 combos, not 4. A beginner combinatorics walkthrough at Poker Railbird was read for coverage; it does not give the 12-combo offsuit count, which this page does.
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