Hand rankings in poker correspond to the likelihood of making such hands.

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Example: Your five-card poker hand is K♣K♦K♥J♣7♦ — you have three-of-a-kind kings, often a 🔑 very powerful hand in hold'em.

Four of a kind is the minimum holding you'll need to beat someone with a full 🔑 house.

If the cards are of the same suit, you have a straight flush, which is a considerably stronger hand compare 🔑 d to the simple straight. What beats a straight in poker? Although many see the straight as a stronger hand, 🔑 there are many other poker hands that beat it. The list of hands that beat a straight includes: a flush; 🔑 a full house; a four-of-a-kind; a straight flush; a Royal Flush. What beats a flush in poker? The list of 🔑 hands that beat a flush includes: a full house; a four-of-a-kind; a straight flush; a Royal Flush. What beats a 🔑 full house in poker? The list of hands that beat a full house includes: four-of-a-kind; a straight flush; a Royal 🔑 Flush. What is the highest suit in poker? All the suits in poker have the same value. In some games, 🔑 different suits can be assigned different values. When that happens, the value is as follows (from the lowest to the 🔑 highest): clubs, diamonds, hearts, spades. In that case, spades is the highest suit. How many poker hands are there? The 🔑 total number of poker hands in a game of poker is 2,598,960. Since a game of poker uses a 52-card 🔑 deck of French cards, there are 2,598,960 different possible combinations (aka. poker hands). What hands to play in poker? The 🔑 type of hands to play in a poker game depends on the game you play and other factors like your 🔑 position in the hand, your stack, and the action at the table. In a famous poker strategy article, professional player 🔑 Jonathan Little shared which hands to play in poker and how to play marginal hands. Can you make three pairs? 🔑 Although it is possible to hold a pair in your hand and then have another two pair appear among the 🔑 five community cards, you can only use a total of five cards to make your poker hand, so you don't 🔑 win anything for three pairs. Which is better, a set or trips? They are both essentially the same hand because 🔑 they are both three of a kind. The terminology "set" is used when you have a pair as your hole 🔑 cards and then catch another one of those cards on the board. "Trips" is when there is a pair on 🔑 the board and you have another of those cards as one of your hole cards. Sets are easier to disguise 🔑 than trips so many consider them to be a better hand, although they both rank the same. What is a 🔑 chopped or split pot? If you and an opponent have the same five-card poker hand, then the pot is divided 🔑 equally between you. Say you have A♦J♣ and your opponent has A♠J♦, and the board comes A♣8♦2♣3♥10♥. You both would 🔑 be playing the same five-card hands in terms of their value (A-J-T-8-3), and so would split the pot. If there 🔑 is four of a kind on the board, who wins? Because the aim is to make a five-card poker hand, 🔑 whoever has the highest fifth card in this case wins. If the board reads 7♣7♠7♦7♥3♣ and you have A♠Q♠ in 🔑 your hand and your opponent has K♣Q♣, then you win because you hand is 7-7-7-7-A and your opponent's is 7-7-7-7-K. 🔑 You would also win even if your opponent holding was K♣K♠ in this example. Why did my 4-4-4-T-T lose to 🔑 my opponent's 7-7-7-8-8? It is the three-of-a-kind element of a full house that dictates the winner. If you're new to 🔑 the game and want a reference of all of Texas hold'em hands, you can keep this page open or you 🔑 could always download and print our poker hands ranking chart that you can find higher up this page and keep 🔑 it next to you while you're playing poker.