It's time to brush up on those all important hand rankings.

Here's a list of the possible hands and how they rank, together with a short definition and, in the hope that a picture is indeed worth a thousand words, an example image.

 

 

Royal Flush

The daddy of all poker hands, a royal flush is a straight flush involving the 10,
Jack, Queen, King and Ace.

 

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Straight Flush

A straight with all the cards in the same suit.

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Four of a kind

Four cards of the same rank, for example four Queens.

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Full house

A combination of a pair and three of a kind.

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Flush

Five cards of the same suit, for example five diamonds.

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Straight

Five cards in sequential rank order, for example 8, 9, 10, Jack and a Queen. An
ace may be used as both a high and a low card.

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Three of a kind

Also called trips, this is where you have three cards of the same rank, for
example three sevens.

 

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Two Pair

Two sets of cards of the same rank, for example two queens and two sixes.

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Pair

Any two cards of the same rank, for example two Queens. The ranking of pairs
mirrors that of the cards in general, so the strongest pair is a pair of Aces and the
weakest a pair of 2s.

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High card

The highest ranked card is an Ace, and the ranking runs from the Ace down through
the picture cards all the way to 2.