About Rank Of Poker Hand
When you visit the online casino you will be surprised by the choices you have. You can either play the roulette, poker or blackjack download games in flash or in blackjack download versions. However, the games and game variations may be different, the rules in most cases remain the same. The objective of every poker game is to get the highest five cards hand from the hole or pocket cards and community ones. Here we give the explanation of every rank of poker hand from the best to worst. To describe the examples of the cards combinations we applied abbreviations: J - Jack, A - Ace, K - King, Q - Queen, C - Clubs, H - Hearts, D - Diamonds, S - Spades.
Royal Flush is considered to be the strongest rank of poker hand that is the straight flush (the sequence of the cards of the same suit) from Ace to ten: AD, KD, QD, JD, 10D.
Straight Flush is five cards consecutively numbered with the same suit. For instance: 7H, 8H, 9H, 10H, JH.
Four of a Kind is the poker hand which consists of four cards of the same rank. The suit isn’t taken into consideration. For instance: JS, JD, JC, JH, KH.
Full House is the poker hand that has three cards from one value and two other cards of another value no matter suit is. For example: 6C, 6H, 3S, 3D, 3H.
Flush consists of any five cards of the same suit. For example: 9H, JH, KH, 2H, 5H.
Straight consists of five cards consecutively numbered no matter their suit. The Ace can be counted as the highest and lowest card. For instance: 3S, 4D, 5S, 6C, 7H.
Three of a Kind is poker hand which consists of three cards of the same rank. The cards suit isn’t taken into consideration. For instance: KD, KC, KH, 8S, 2C.
Two Pair is the hand that has two cards of one value and two cards from another value. In Two Pair the cards suit doesn’t matter. For example: QC, QD, 7S, 7D, JH.
One Pair consists of two cards with one value. For example: 10D, 10S, 8S, 6H, 3H.
High Card does not has any of the mentioned cards combinations and has the lowest rank of poker hand. The rank of High Card hand is denoted by the highest card. For example: 4S, 7D, 9, JH, KC, 10S.