Poker Hand Rankings

Poker is the kind of game where cheating or bluffing is allowed, which is impossible to observe in any other game - you can not see person cheating at slots, online roulette or the one who cheats when he is at play blackjack table. The objective of each poker variant is to obtain the highest five cards hand from the hole cards and community cards. Here we give the listing of all possible poker hands from the strongest to the weakest. To show the examples of the hands we used such shortenings: H - Hearts, S - Spades, C - Clubs, D - Diamonds, K - King, Q - Queen, A - Ace, J - Jack.

Royal Flush is counted as the strongest poker hand which is in fact the straight flush (the succession of cards of the same suit) from Ace to ten: AC, KC, QC, JC, 10C.

Straight Flush is any five cards in sequence from the same suit. For instance: 9D, 10D, JD, QD, KD.

Four of a Kind is the hand of four cards with one rank. The suit is not taken into account. For instance: AS, AD, AC, AH, KH.

Full House is the poker hand which contains three cards from the same value and two cards with another rank no matter their suit. For instance: AS, AD, 6S, 6D, 6C.

Flush has five cards from the same suit. For example: QS, 10S, 7S, 5S, 4S.

Straight has five cards in succession no matter their suit. In Straight Ace can be counted both as the weakest or strongest card. For example: KD, QC, JH, 10S, 9H.

Three of a Kind is the poker hand that has three cards of the same value. The cards suit doesn’t matter. For example: QD, QS, QH, 8S, 3C.

Two Pair is the hand that contains two cards with the same value and two cards of another rank. In this hand the suit doesn’t matter. For example: QC, QD, 7S, 7D, JH.

One Pair is the hand that consists of two cards of the same rank. For example: JD, JS, 7S, 3C, 2H.

High Card is the poker hand that does not has the mentioned above cards combinations. The strength of High Card hand is denoted by the highest card. For example: AH, QC, JD, 9S, 5C.