Probability of 5 Card Poker Hand with Only Two Suits (Method)

Probability of 5 Card Poker Hand with Only Two Suits:

Pick a card from any suit: 52

Pick a card from a different suit: 39

Pick three more cards from either of the first two suits: $24*23*22$

So, $52*39*24*23*22$ should be the number of ordered 5 card poker hands consisting of only two suits.

To get unordered hands, divide by the number of ways to organize 5 things, that is, 5!.

Why is $\frac{52*39*24*23*22}{5!}$ not the right answer?

I understand one can get the answer by doing the following:

Pick two suits: 6

Pick 5 cards from the two suits: $26 ~C~ 5$

Subtract the sets of the above that have only one of each suit: $2(13 ~ C ~ 5)$

Thus, a correct answer would be 6*(26 C 5 - 2(13 C 5))

Which could also be written $6*((26*25*24*23*22/5!) - 2*(13*12*11*10*9/5!))$

I get why that works, I just need help understanding why my first method does not, or how I could modify it so it would work? Any thoughts?

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What you're trying to calculate would more unambiguously be referred to as the probability of a hand having exactly two suits. I would tend to interpret "a hand having only two suits" as "a hand having at most two suits". – joriki Feb 4 '13 at 19:24
You are right, I should have written this as "exactly two suits." – jsjwooowooo Feb 5 '13 at 0:10

@jsjwooowooo: I see that. But the fact that you only count $39$ for the second card requires that it be of a different suit than the first. You would have to add in $52*12*39*23*22$ for hands where you draw two of the first suit first, then another suit, plus some more terms for the other orders. – Ross Millikan Feb 5 '13 at 0:30
@jsjwooowooo: add up the numbers for the possibilities when you get the first card of the second suit. My last comment gives the second card and third card. For the fourth, it is $52*12*11*39*22$ and the fifth $52*12*11*10*39$. Then divide by $5!$. You should be there, but I didn't check. – Ross Millikan Feb 5 '13 at 4:46