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I've read a couple of sources that said it was an anomaly of the game. Both indicated that a flush was more likely than a straight.
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That is incorrect. Out of the total of 133,784,560 7-card combinations, 4,047,644 contain a flush, and 6,180,020 contain a straight.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poker_probability