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Want to learn some poker rules? Aha! You’re far from the only one. There are millions of people the world over (whether they’d admit to it or not) who have toyed with the idea of getting in on online poker. It’s tempting, after all: lots of people make lots of money online just by knowing how to play a card game. And you can, too: but before you do, you need to know the rules.
And part of those rules is knowing the various poker hands, and how each one is valued against the next. Here follows, then, all the hands in poker – weighted from worst to best – for your perusal and scrutiny. Learn these and you’re well on your way to playing poker competitively.
1. The first hand in the poker rules compendium is the high card. If you have no other combination of cards then you rely on your highest card. Never bet on this hand if such is the case.
2. Second is the pair. Two matching cards. Better than a high card, but still weak.
3. Two pair. Pretty simple; two pairs of the same card.
4. Three of a kind. Pretty easy to figure out what these poker hands are so far, right?
5. Straight. This requires you to have five cards in a ranking order of no particular suit.
6. Flush. Five cards of the same suit. It doesn’t matter which cards they are.
7. Full house. If you’ve heard of any poker hand in your experience with poker rules in the past it was probably this. A full house is basically a combination of the three of a kind and the pair: you have three of one card and two of another.
8. Four of a kind. Another simple one, but hard to acquire.
9. Straight flush. We’re almost to the top of the rules. This is a straight with cards all of the same suit. Notoriously difficult to get, but not as hard as the royal flush
10. Jack, Queen, King, Ace of any suit. No other card outside these will do.
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