The Odds Behind Every Dompe Hand
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How hard is it to be dealt a winning hand in Dompe? We did not want to guess, so we counted. A six-card hand is a choice of 6 cards out of 53, which can happen in exactly 22,957,480 different ways. We ran every one of those hands through the game’s own hand evaluator, Joker included, and counted how many make each winning hand.
The counts
| Hand | Possible hands | Share | Odds |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Comi | 5,304 | 0.0231% | 1 in 4,328 |
| 6-card straight flush | 220 | 0.0010% | 1 in 104,352 |
| 6-card flush | 11,792 | 0.0514% | 1 in 1,947 |
| 6-card straight | 83,748 | 0.3648% | 1 in 274 |
| Three pair | 185,328 | 0.8073% | 1 in 124 |
| Any winning hand | 286,392 | 1.25% | 1 in 80.2 |
Every hand is counted once, under the highest hand it can make. A straight flush is not also counted as a flush or a straight, and a hand that the Joker can turn into several hands is counted as the highest one.
What the numbers say
- Three pair is the most common winning hand by a wide margin: about 65% of all winning hands, far ahead of every other hand.
- The 6-card straight flush is the rarest by count, with only 220 possible hands.
- About 1.25% of random six-card hands already win, roughly 1 in 80. That is only the starting point, because in a real game you draw and dump a card every turn.
Why the ranking is not the same as rarity
The order in the game (El Comi, straight flush, flush, straight, three pair) is for display. In Dompe the first player to lay down a valid hand wins, whichever hand it is, so rarity does not decide anything at the table. The game lists El Comi first, but by count the straight flush is the rarer hand. What the table shows is that a plan based on pairs reaches a win more easily than a plan based on a straight or a flush.
What this means for your play
- Pairs are valuable. Two pairs plus a single card are one matching card away from three pair, which is the easiest hand to complete.
- Flushes need a lot of the same suit. You need all six cards of one suit, so keep going for it only when you already hold four or five.
- Straights need six different consecutive ranks and no duplicates, so every pair in your hand is a card you will eventually need to dump.
- The Joker changes everything and shows up in about 11.3% of random hands. See how the Joker works.
How we counted
These are counts of dealt six-card hands, not of hands that players actually complete during a game, which depends on how you draw and dump. The counts come from a script that checks every possible six-card combination with the same evaluator the game uses, so they include the Joker rules and the ace-high or ace-low straight rule. The numbers are exact, not estimates.