Ranking Guide for Standard Poker Hands

Ranking Guide for Standard Poker Hands

There’s no use talking about poker before hand rankings are established and agreed upon, since they determine the winner of each round. If more than one player is still 'alive' at the end of the round, the winner is the player showing the highest ranked poker hand. Different poker variants use different ranking systems, but they all stem in some way or another from the classic, conventional poker hand rankings which are displayed below.

The Logic Behind Poker Hand Rankings

Players construct the best five-card poker hand according to the specific rules of each poker variant. These five-card hands are ranked in an inverse relation to the probability of being randomly dealt each hand. In simple terms this means that the harder it is to make a hand, the higher that hand will rank, therefore beating players holding weaker hands which are statistically easier to come across.

General Poker Rank Rules

  • Individual cards are ranked as follows, from high to low: A, K, Q, J, 10, 9….2
  • Poker hands are ranked first by the categories below, and then by individual card rank within each category. For example, if two players are holding a Two Pair, the player with the highest ranking pair wins.
  • A hand is always made up of five cards.
  • Suits have no value. In case of a tie between the same flush using two different suits, the pot is split.

Standard Poker Hand Rankings

The winner of each poker hand is the player who has the strongest combination of cards, using any combination of "pocket" cards and "community" cards. The combinations are listed here from strongest to weakest hand.

Royal Flush

The highest possible Straight Flush – 10,J,K,Q,A of the same suit.

Straight Flush

Five consecutive cards of the same suit.

Four of a Kind

Four cards of the same rank.

Full House

Three cards of the same rank, and two cards of another rank.

Flush

Five cards of the same suit.

Straight

Five cards in a sequence, not of the same suit.

Three of a Kind

Three cards of the same rank.

Two Pair

Two cards of the same rank together with two additional cards of a different rank.

One Pair

Two cards of the same rank.

Highest Card

When no player is holding any of the above hands, the hand with the highest ranking card wins. For example, if no one else has an ace, and you’re holding 4,6,9,J,A, you have the high card and therefore take the pot.

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