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Poker Hand rankings
This is the way poker hands is being ranked
If you’re new to playing poker and don’t yet know what the hands are then you will need to make sure you read through this article. We will talk about the poker hands, and also what hands beat what. This is important to know because if you don’t know what you have then you won’t be able to analyze your odds. It’s also important to know how poker hands rank, because you need to be able to know how many possible different hands can beat you in order to properly make decisions at the poker table.
We will go through the different poker hands now starting with the best possible poker hand to the worst hand in poker. This will help you a lot when learning how to play poker, and I recommend going through the list a few times so that you can remember what hands beat what.
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Royal flush, the highest poker hand. It consists of AKQJT all in the same suit. As all suits are equal, all royal flushes are equal. |
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Straight flush, five cards of the same suit in sequence, such as 76543 of hearts. The ace can play low to make 5432A, the lowest straight flush. |
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Four of a kind, four cards of the same rank accompanied by a "kicker", like 44442. Ranked by the quads, so that 44442 beats 3333K. |
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Full House, three cards of one rank accompanied by two of another, such as 777JJ. Ranked by the trips, so that 44422 beats 333AA. |
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Flush, five cards of the same suit, such as AJ942 of hearts. Ranked by the top card, and then by the next card, so that AJ942 beats AJ876. Suits are not used to break ties. |
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Straight, five cards in sequence, such as 76543. The ace plays either high or low, making AKQJT and 5432A. "Around the corner" straights like 32AKQ are not allowed. |
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Three of a kind, three cards of the same rank and two kickers of different ranks, such as KKK84. Ranked by the trips, so that KKK84 beats QQQAK, but QQQAK beats QQQA7. |
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Two pair, two cards of one rank, two cards of another rank and a kicker of a third rank, such as KK449. Ranked by the top pair, then the bottom pair and finally the kicker, so that KK449 beats any of QQJJA, KK22Q, and KK445. |
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One pair, two cards of one rank accompanied by three kickers of different ranks, such as AAK53. Ranked by the pair, followed by each kicker in turn, so that AAK53 beats AAK52. |
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High card, any hand that does not qualify as one of the better hands above, such as KJ542 of mixed suits. Ranked by the top card, then the second card and so on, as for flushes. Suits are not used to break ties. |
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Those are the possible poker hands that you should be looking for and they are ranked from best possible hand to worst possible hand. Generally you shouldn’t think high card or a pair is a good hand though and you should be looking for hands of two pairs and better or fold.
Ace can be used as both high and low card in poker, so when making straights you can use them as high or low, which is important to know. One more final thing to note is that all of the suits in poker hold the exact same value so the suit doesn’t matter.
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