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In some popular variations of poker, a player uses the best five-card poker hand out of seven cards. The frequencies are calculated in a manner similar to that shown for 5-card hands, except additional complications arise due to the extra two cards in the 7-card poker hand. The total number of distinct 7-card hands is . It is notable that the probability of a no-pair hand is less than the probability of a one-pair or two-pair hand.

The royal flush is not included in the cumulative probability calculation because it is a type of straight flush. The Ace-high straight flush or royal flush is slightly more frequent (4324) than the lower straight flushes (4140 each) because the remaining two cards can have any value; a King-high straight flush, for example, cannot have the Ace of its suit in the hand (as that would make it ace-high instead).

Hand	Frequency	Probability	Cumulative	Odds
Royal flush	4,324	0.0032%	0.0032%	30,939 : 1
Straight flush	37,260	0.0279%	0.0311%	3,216 : 1
Four of a kind	224,848	0.168%	0.199%	594 : 1
Full house	3,473,184	2.60%	2.80%	37.5 : 1
Flush	4,047,644	3.03%	5.82%	32.1 : 1
Straight	6,180,020	4.62%	10.4%	20.6 : 1
Three of a kind	6,461,620	4.83%	15.3%	19.7 : 1
Two pair	31,433,400	23.5%	38.8%	3.26 : 1
One pair	58,627,800	43.8%	82.6%	1.28 : 1
No pair	23,294,460	17.4%	100%	4.74 : 1
Total	133,784,560	100%	100%	0 : 1

(The frequencies given are exact; the probabilities and odds are approximate.)

Since suits have no relative value in poker, two hands can be considered identical if one hand can be transformed into the other by swapping suits. Eliminating identical hands that ignore relative suit values leaves 6,009,159 distinct 7-card hands.

The number of distinct 5-card poker hands that are possible from 7 cards is 4,824. Perhaps surprisingly, this is fewer than the number of 5-card poker hands from 5 cards because some 5-card hands are impossible with 7 cards (e.g. 7-high).

2. Frequency of 7-card lowball poker hands

In some variants of poker a player uses the best five-card low hand selected from seven cards. In most variants of lowball, the ace is counted as the lowest card and straights and flushes don't count against a low hand, so the lowest hand is the five-high hand A-2-3-4-5, also called a wheel. The probability is calculated based on , the total number of 7-card combinations.

The table does not extend to include five-card hands with at least one pair. Its "Total" represents 95.4% of the time that a player can select a 5-card low hand without any pair.

Hand	Frequency	Probability	Cumulative	Odds
5-high	781,824	0.584%	0.584%	170.12 : 1
6-high	3,151,360	2.36%	2.94%	41.45 : 1
7-high	7,426,560	5.55%	8.49%	17.01 : 1
8-high	13,171,200	9.85%	18.3%	9.16 : 1
9-high	19,174,400	14.3%	32.7%	5.98 : 1
10-high	23,675,904	17.7%	50.4%	4.65 : 1
Jack-high	24,837,120	18.6%	68.9%	4.39 : 1
Queen-high	21,457,920	16.0%	85.0%	5.23 : 1
King-high	13,939,200	10.4%	95.4%	8.60 : 1
Total	127,615,488	95.4%	95.4%	0.05 : 1

(The frequencies given are exact; the probabilities and odds are approximate.)

If aces are not low, simply rotate the hand descriptions so that 6-high replaces 5-high for the best hand and ace-high replaces king-high as the worst hand.