Poker Hands or Poker Power Rankings:

Below you will find the Poker Hands hierarchy or Poker Hand Power Rankings and a brief description of each of the hands. For an online tutorial on how to play poker, please use the menu board on the left in the 'Poker School' section. Also you will find other links to various poker related information.

Royal Straight Flush
Ten, Jack, Queen, King, Ace of the same suit.

Straight Flush
Straight with all five cards in the same suit.


Four of a kind is next highest. It consists of the four cards of any one rank together with any fifth card; for example

constitute four Queens.

A full house ranks next; it consists of any three of one kind and any pair of another kind, such as

It is referred to by the three-of-a-kind it contains; the example shown would be "threes full."

A flush, ranking next; it consists of any five cards of the same suit, but not in sequence, as

referred to as a "Ace high flush."

A straight consists of any five cards of two or more suits in sequence of rank, with the ace ranking either high or low in the sequence.

One does not need to have an ace to have a straight, of course: any five cards in a row will do. A straight ranks next under a flush.

Three of a kind are any three cards of the same rank plus two other cards which do not constitute a pair and do not include the fourth card of the same rank;

would be referred to as "three eights." Or “trip eights.”

Two pair, which ranks next under three of a kind, consists of two cards of one rank, two cards of another rank, and any fifth card which is neither of those ranks; it is referred to by the higher of the two pairs. Thus,

would be "Queens up."

One pair - any two cards of the same rank, together with three other cards which do not combine with the other two to form any of the higher-ranking hands above:

is a pair of kings.

High card - when the cards contain no cards of the same rank or the same suit or combine to make a sequential run to form any of the higher-ranking hands above:

the highest card value is used, in this case the highest card would be the 7. When two or more players are relying on a high card to win a hand, the Ace of any suit is in variably considered to be the highest card.

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