A flush is 5 cards of the same suit. I don't know if you want to consider a straight flush as a flush or not. Choose the suit for the flush 4 ways. Choose the ranks: 13 cards choose 5. That's 13C5 Answer: 4*(13C5) = 4(1287) = 5148 There are 5148 possible flushes, including straight flushes. Straight flushes can be a set of any of these 10 {A,2,3,4,5} {2,3,4,5,6} {3,4,5,6,7} {4,5,6,7,8} {5,6,7,8,9} {6,7,8,9,10} {7,8,9,10,J} {8,9,10,J,Q} {9,10,J,Q,K} {10,J,Q,K,A} There are 4 suits that each could be, so there are 10*4 = 40 straight flushes. So the answer is 5148 if you are counting straight flushes, but only 5148-40 = 5108 if you are not Edwin