Mathematically, there are 2,598,960 five-card hands possible with a standard fifty-two-card deck in Poker.
But that’s child’s play, considering there are 635,013,559,600 possible hands in a game of bridge.
Still, these can’t hold a candle to chess:
a mathematician once calculated that the first ten moves in a game could be played in 170,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 different ways.
