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Poker Hands
Beginners will need to have a grasp of the main
poker hands
before they hit the table – learn them here.
Hands in Poker
It’s pretty important to have a basic grasp of the main poker hands and their relative strength before you hit the tables, after all how are you going to win if you don’t know when you’ve got a winning hand?
Starting at the bottom then, a “high card” hand ranks below all other poker hands because it contains no useful combination of cards such as a pair or a straight and relies purely on the strength of its highest ranking card.
Next up, a “One pair” hand is, as the name suggests, a hand with a single pair of cards that rank the same. So, for instance, if you were dealt a 2 of hearts, a king of spades, a jack of clubs and 6’s in diamonds and hearts you’d have a “one pair” hand with a pair of 6’s. The strength of the hand is dependent on the strength of the pair, so a pair of kings would beat a pair of queens. A “two pair” hand is the same but with two pairs of cards that rank the same and a “three of a kind” hand would have three.
Starting at the bottom then, a “high card” hand ranks below all other poker hands because it contains no useful combination of cards such as a pair or a straight and relies purely on the strength of its highest ranking card.
Next up, a “One pair” hand is, as the name suggests, a hand with a single pair of cards that rank the same. So, for instance, if you were dealt a 2 of hearts, a king of spades, a jack of clubs and 6’s in diamonds and hearts you’d have a “one pair” hand with a pair of 6’s. The strength of the hand is dependent on the strength of the pair, so a pair of kings would beat a pair of queens. A “two pair” hand is the same but with two pairs of cards that rank the same and a “three of a kind” hand would have three.
A “straight” is a hand that contains five cards of sequential rank in more than one suit. A straight ranks above a “three of a kind” and below a “flush” which is when all five cards are of the same suit. Both straights and flushes the rank according to the relative strength of the cards they are composed of; a straight that runs from 9 to king would beat a competing straight that runs from 8 to queen for instance and the high card in a flush determines its relative strength; a flush in which the high card is a king beats a flush in which the high card is a queen.
A “Full House” is a hand that comprises a pair and a three of a kind and ranks above a flush and below a “four of a kind” which, fairly obviously, is a hand that contains four cards that rank the same; the 5 of hearts, diamonds, clubs and spades for instance. Again, a higher ranking four of a kind would beat a lower ranking one.
The top ranking hand is a “straight flush” which is a straight in which all the cards same suit. The highest ranking straight flush and the king of poker hands is the “Royal flush”, an ace high straight flush, if you’re dealt this then consider yourself pretty much unbeatable.
A “Full House” is a hand that comprises a pair and a three of a kind and ranks above a flush and below a “four of a kind” which, fairly obviously, is a hand that contains four cards that rank the same; the 5 of hearts, diamonds, clubs and spades for instance. Again, a higher ranking four of a kind would beat a lower ranking one.
The top ranking hand is a “straight flush” which is a straight in which all the cards same suit. The highest ranking straight flush and the king of poker hands is the “Royal flush”, an ace high straight flush, if you’re dealt this then consider yourself pretty much unbeatable.
