Exhibit

Rarest hands.

Deal the top five cards of a freshly shuffled deck as a poker hand. Almost always it is nothing much. This room holds the shuffles where it was four of a kind or better, ranked rarest first.

What is ranked

The poker rank of the top five cards, evaluated as a standard five-card hand. Only four of a kind, straight flushes and royal flushes qualify. Ties are ordered by archive number, oldest first.

How rare

Of all possible decks, about one in 3,914 opens with four of a kind or better: 664 of the 2,598,960 possible five-card hands.

The record

Royal flush

Shuffle #35,419, recorded April 28, 2025. 3,658 shuffles have qualified so far.

RankShuffleHandShuffledEra
201#12,908,119Straight flushSeptember 4, 2026this site
202#12,919,844Straight flushSeptember 4, 2026this site
203#12,926,173Straight flushSeptember 4, 2026this site
204#12,985,355Straight flushSeptember 5, 2026this site
205#13,012,850Straight flushSeptember 5, 2026this site
206#13,047,581Straight flushSeptember 5, 2026this site
207#13,082,694Straight flushSeptember 6, 2026this site
208#13,187,058Straight flushSeptember 7, 2026this site
209#13,542,454Straight flushSeptember 11, 2026this site
210#13,613,264Straight flushSeptember 12, 2026this site
211#13,658,467Straight flushSeptember 13, 2026this site
212#13,759,481Straight flushSeptember 14, 2026this site
213#14,024,031Straight flushSeptember 17, 2026this site
214#14,070,745Straight flushSeptember 17, 2026this site
215#14,133,165Straight flushSeptember 18, 2026this site
216#14,236,259Straight flushSeptember 19, 2026this site
217#14,265,098Straight flushSeptember 20, 2026this site
218#2,865Four of a kindApril 28, 20252025 engine
219#7,147Four of a kindApril 28, 20252025 engine
220#9,356Four of a kindApril 28, 20252025 engine
221#9,357Four of a kindApril 28, 20252025 engine
222#12,752Four of a kindApril 28, 20252025 engine
223#17,003Four of a kindApril 28, 20252025 engine
224#20,900Four of a kindApril 28, 20252025 engine
225#22,771Four of a kindApril 28, 20252025 engine
226#23,747Four of a kindApril 28, 20252025 engine
227#25,806Four of a kindApril 28, 20252025 engine
228#26,179Four of a kindApril 28, 20252025 engine
229#34,078Four of a kindApril 28, 20252025 engine
230#48,138Four of a kindApril 29, 20252025 engine
231#50,150Four of a kindApril 29, 20252025 engine
232#53,684Four of a kindApril 29, 20252025 engine
233#60,585Four of a kindApril 29, 20252025 engine
234#60,586Four of a kindApril 29, 20252025 engine
235#64,970Four of a kindApril 29, 20252025 engine
236#67,395Four of a kindApril 29, 20252025 engine
237#67,400Four of a kindApril 29, 20252025 engine
238#68,904Four of a kindApril 29, 20252025 engine
239#70,922Four of a kindApril 29, 20252025 engine
240#77,062Four of a kindApril 29, 20252025 engine
241#80,224Four of a kindApril 29, 20252025 engine
242#82,717Four of a kindApril 29, 20252025 engine
243#84,870Four of a kindApril 29, 20252025 engine
244#91,179Four of a kindApril 29, 20252025 engine
245#91,946Four of a kindApril 29, 20252025 engine
246#100,991Four of a kindApril 29, 20252025 engine
247#107,326Four of a kindApril 29, 20252025 engine
248#107,327Four of a kindApril 29, 20252025 engine
249#107,328Four of a kindApril 29, 20252025 engine
250#111,527Four of a kindApril 29, 20252025 engine
251#117,962Four of a kindApril 29, 20252025 engine
252#119,270Four of a kindApril 29, 20252025 engine
253#128,616Four of a kindApril 30, 20252025 engine
254#132,105Four of a kindApril 30, 20252025 engine
255#132,876Four of a kindApril 30, 20252025 engine
256#140,070Four of a kindApril 30, 20252025 engine
257#140,277Four of a kindApril 30, 20252025 engine
258#151,277Four of a kindApril 30, 20252025 engine
259#162,002Four of a kindApril 30, 20252025 engine
260#166,645Four of a kindApril 30, 20252025 engine
261#169,987Four of a kindApril 30, 20252025 engine
262#185,415Four of a kindApril 30, 20252025 engine
263#188,583Four of a kindApril 30, 20252025 engine
264#192,572Four of a kindApril 30, 20252025 engine
265#195,964Four of a kindApril 30, 20252025 engine
266#203,617Four of a kindApril 30, 20252025 engine
267#203,758Four of a kindApril 30, 20252025 engine
268#203,852Four of a kindApril 30, 20252025 engine
269#204,068Four of a kindApril 30, 20252025 engine
270#219,232Four of a kindMay 1, 20252025 engine
271#221,374Four of a kindMay 1, 20252025 engine
272#233,419Four of a kindMay 1, 20252025 engine
273#234,310Four of a kindMay 1, 20252025 engine
274#243,318Four of a kindMay 1, 20252025 engine
275#246,809Four of a kindMay 1, 20252025 engine
276#248,313Four of a kindMay 1, 20252025 engine
277#249,627Four of a kindMay 1, 20252025 engine
278#250,690Four of a kindMay 1, 20252025 engine
279#253,882Four of a kindMay 1, 20252025 engine
280#269,058Four of a kindMay 1, 20252025 engine
281#271,524Four of a kindMay 1, 20252025 engine
282#272,110Four of a kindMay 1, 20252025 engine
283#277,656Four of a kindMay 1, 20252025 engine
284#286,020Four of a kindMay 1, 20252025 engine
285#299,642Four of a kindMay 2, 20252025 engine
286#305,900Four of a kindMay 2, 20252025 engine
287#308,059Four of a kindMay 2, 20252025 engine
288#311,501Four of a kindMay 2, 20252025 engine
289#312,730Four of a kindMay 2, 20252025 engine
290#321,513Four of a kindMay 2, 20252025 engine
291#321,617Four of a kindMay 2, 20252025 engine
292#327,074Four of a kindMay 2, 20252025 engine
293#328,007Four of a kindMay 2, 20252025 engine
294#331,930Four of a kindMay 2, 20252025 engine
295#336,560Four of a kindMay 2, 20252025 engine
296#338,221Four of a kindMay 2, 20252025 engine
297#340,367Four of a kindMay 2, 20252025 engine
298#344,153Four of a kindMay 2, 20252025 engine
299#345,016Four of a kindMay 2, 20252025 engine
300#345,017Four of a kindMay 2, 20252025 engine

The counts behind that probability are the classical poker enumeration, re-verified in this project by evaluating all 2,598,960 hands. The math pages cover why a deck has so many orderings that even a royal flush on top has turned up here more than once.