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Standard poker hand ranking:
1 Straight flush
2 Four of a kind
3 Full house
4 Flush
5 Straight
6 Three of a kind
7 Two pair
8 One pair
9 High card
General rules
The following general rules apply to evaluating
poker hands,
whatever set of hand values are used.
Individual cards are ranked A (high), K, Q,
J, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, A.
Aces only appear low when part of an A-2-3-4-5
straight or straight flush.
Individual card ranks are used to compare
hands that contain no pairs or
other special combinations, or to compare
the kickers of otherwise equal
hands. The ace plays low only in ace-to-five
and ace-to-six lowball games,
and plays high only in deuce-to-seven lowball.
Suits have no value. The suits of the cards
are mainly used in determining
whether a hand fits a certain category (specifically
the flush and straight
flush hands). In most variants, if two players
have hands that are identical
except for suit, then they are tied and split
the pot (so 3? 4? 5? 6? 7? does
not beat 3? 4? 5? 6? 7?). Sometimes a ranking
called high card by suit is
used for randomly selecting a player to deal.
Low card by suit usually
determines the bring-in bettor in stud games.
A hand always consists of five cards. In games
where more than five cards
are available to each player, the best five-card
combination of those cards plays.
Hands are ranked first by category, then by
individual card ranks: even the
lowest qualifying hand in a certain category
defeats all hands in all lower
categories. The smallest two pair hand (2?
2? 3? 3? 4?), for example,
defeats all hands with just one pair or high
card. Only between two hands
in the same category are card ranks used to
break ties.
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