Hand Ranking

Do I hold the best hand?

There are variation to the game, and what is considered as the highest ranking hand, but here we’ll take as our starting point games like Seven-card Stud and Texas Hold’em, which are played with a 52 card deck, and there is no joker.

These are the highest ranking cards in descending order, best hand first:

Royal flush

The highest possible ranked hand. To achieve this hand you need an Ace, King, Queen, Jack, and 10 of the same suit.
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Straight flush

Five cards of the same suit in ascending order.
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Full House

Three of a kind and a pair. The player with the higher value three of a kind, wins in the event of a tie.
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Flush

A hand containing five cards of the same suit. If two players have the same hand the winner is the player holding the highest valued cards.
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Straight

Five cards of any suit in ascending order. The ace can be either high or low and the high straight wins the tie.
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Three-of-a-kind

Three of a kind is simply three cards of the same value.
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Two pair

Two sets of pairs.
The player holding the highest pair takes the pot in the event that more than one player is holding two pairs.
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One pair

One pair of cards in a hand.
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No pair

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High Card

Highest card takes all in the event there is a complete absence of the above hands.

This is the easy part. Poker is much, much more than mastering the rules. Poker is not only about placing a bet and wining. Poker is also about good thinking and a good strategy