What is a Flush in Poker?

How should you play a Flush in Hold’em?

A big advantage of having a Flush is that you can form one using either one or two of your hole cards.

Flopping a Flush is rare, so you’ll need to be prepared to chase one on the turn or river. The way you go about chasing a Flush depends on the situation and cards you’ve been dealt.

If you’re chasing it then you might want to raise pre-flop to get rid of any potential cheap banana skins that could later form a stronger hand.

You may well have called with suited lower value connectors. Or you might have found the flop landing kindly with same-suited cards being dealt.

You simply have to play the hand as its dealt but try to find the right balance between slow play and showing some strength to your hand.

That is certainly the case if you’re fortunate to flop a Flush. You don’t want to give your hand away, but you want to make sure you get paid for your decent hand.

Flush Probabilities

In Texas Hold'em, where players have a total of seven cards available for making the strongest hands of five cards, a Flush can occur pretty frequently. There are more than 5,000 ways to get a Flush from deck of 52 cards.

In this instance, we’ll look at the odds of being dealt a Flush on the flop. Meaning a player will have five cards – consisting of their two hole cards and the three flop cards.

The odds of being dealt a Flush on the flop is only the tip of the iceberg. To view a wider range of odds and probabilities of being dealt different hands then check out our very own poker odds calculator.