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Whatever type of poker you are playing the aim is to
make the best five card hand possible, out of your cards. There are 10
possible hands in Poker and here they are. Listed from 10 to 1, 1 being
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Five unrelated cards which do not form any of the hands below. The
highest card is then declared, so, A-10-9-4-3 is called “ace high”.
If two or more players have the same high card then the second card
is compared to see which one is higher. If that’s the same, then
the third and so on.
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A pair is two cards with the same index, three other unrelated cards make
up the rest of the hand. If two or more players have the same pair then
the highest unrelated card wins. If that is the same it’s the next
highest card. Then finally the winner will be the player with the highest
low card.
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Two pairs are when you have two different pair in the
one hand. For example 2-2-10-10-A is a hand with two pairs, the two pairs
are of different index otherwise you would have four of a kind, there
is one card left over and this makes up the five. If two or more players
have two pairs then it is the highest pair that wins. If this pair is
the same then the highest second pair wins. And if that pair is the same
then it is the highest fifth card that wins. |
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Three cards of the same index plus two other cards. This
is also called “trips”. If two or more players have trips
then the hand with the highest trips wins if the trips are the same then
the highest card of the remaining two wins. If that is the same then the
highest fifth card wins. |
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Five cards of mixed suits in sequence for example 4H-5C-6C-7D-8S.
If two or more players have a straight then the player with the highest
top card wins. An ace can count high or low in a straight, but you can’t
go over the top. So 10-J-Q-K-A and A-2-3-4-5 are straights, but Q-K-A-2-3
is not. |
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Simply five cards of the same suit. If two or more
players have a flush then the flush with the highest card wins. If they
both have the same highest card then it comes down to the second highest,
third highest, fourth highest and then the fifth highest. For example
AD-10D-9D-4D-2D beats AC-10C-9C-3C-2C. |
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This hand is three cards of one index and two cards of
another index. For example 10-10-10-2-2 this would be known as 10s full
of 2s. If two or more players have full houses then the highest three
of a kind wins. If the trips are the same then the highest pair would
win.
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Four cards of the same index, such as four Jakes. The fifth card
can be anything. This combination is also called "quads”. If
two or more players fours of a kind, the one with the higher set of quads
is higher so 7-7-7-7-A beats by 2-2-2-2-A. In Texas Holdem it can happen
that two players have the same quads. If this happens then the player
with the higher fifth card wins.
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This is exactly what it says, a straight and a flush together, that is
five cards in sequence of the same suite. If two or more players have
straight flushes, the one containing the higher top card wins. An ace
can be counted as high or low, so AS-2S-3S-4S-5S is a straight flush,
but its highest card is the five, not the ace, Which makes it the lowest
straight flush. The cards cannot "go over the top" so KH-AH-2H-3H-4H
is not valid.
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This is the highest straight flush and consists simply of an ace,
king, queen, jack and ten, all in the same suit. As no two people in
any one game of Texas Holdem can have this hand, it is not broken down
into suit rankings.
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