Best Poker Hands In Order

Poker Hands Has The Best Winning Poker Hands In Order. Poker Hands in Order Hand Rankings List and Poker Hierarchy Pictures Below. Keep the List Handy and Book Mark this Page so you can refer to our ultra easy to follow Poker Hands Order Listing of Winning Hands High to Low. Print out this free poker hand rankings chart – and always know the best winning poker hands. Poker hands are ranked in order from best to worst. Royal Flush An ace high straight flush. Straight Flush Five consecutive cards in the same suit. Four of a Kind Four cards of the same rank.

Poker is the greatest card game in the world. There are 52 cards in a standard deck of cards. That means there are thousands of possible hands you can make. Each hand has a certain value. The object is to get a higher value hand than your opponent. If you are able to do that, you win the hand, unless they bluff you out of the pot. Of course, you can’t control the cards that are dealt to you.

For this guide, we are going to focus on the world’s most popular game, Texas hold’em. There are many other forms of poker and the hand values differ from game to game, but since most of you play hold’em, we’ll stick with that game for now.

Texas hold’em is an exciting poker game. It’s the game played at the world’s most famous poker tournament – the World Series of Poker Main Event. Hold’em is a simple game to learn how to play but difficult game to master. You have to continually practice and gain experience before you can expect to see positive results. That’s what makes Texas hold’em so exciting though. The game offers the perfect mix of strategy and luck.

Here’s how you play the game. You start by receiving two cards face down. You determine, based on the strength of those two cards, if you want to remain in the hand by calling the initial bet, raising, or folding because the cards are weak. We call this “pre-flop action”. If you remain in the hand through this first round of betting, you will then see the “flop”. This is where three community cards are put on the table face-up.

All community cards are available for each player in the hand to use. The object is to make the best possible five cad poker hand from the seven total cards that will be available. Right now, we’ve mentioned just five total cards. The flop is the second round of betting. If there are at least two players remaining after the flop, the next community card will be placed on the table.

This card is called the “turn” or “4th street”. Another round of betting takes place. If at least two players are still in the hand, the final community card is placed on the table. This card is called the “river” or “fifth street”. The river is the card that often makes or breaks your hand. Sometimes you will catch a card on the river that makes your hand superior to your opponent’s hand and sometimes your opponent will do the same thing to you. It’s always frustrating when you end up on the wrong end of the river stick. That’s called a “bad beat”.

More often than not, however, the player with the best hand before the river will still have the best hand after the river. The river is the last round of betting. If a player places a bet on the river and receives a call or neither player elects to bet the river, the winning hand comes down to the player with the best five card poker hand. How do you know if your hand is the best? This guide will answer that question.

Poker Hands Order (Premium Hands)

Determining the winning poker hands depends on the strength of each hand. Every poker hand is assessed a value. The following poker hand ranking values are in order of strongest to weakest. The winning hand is the player with the strongest hand.

Royal Flush: Getting a royal flush isn’t easy. In fact, it’s highly unlikely you’ll get one any time soon. But, if you do, you have the absolute best poker hand possible. A royal flush is when you hold the 10, J, Q, K, and A all of the exact same suit. It’s rare to get a royal flush so if you get one, your opponents are unlikely to put you on that hand.

Straight Flush: Getting a straight flush also isn’t easy, but slightly less difficult than a royal flush. It’s the same thing as a royal flush, but instead of holding the 10, J, Q, K, and A, you can have any connecting cards of the same suit. An example is 8, 9, 10, J, Q of hearts. Although you likely won’t ever have a straight flush up against another straight flush, the winning straight flush is based on the player holding the highest value card.

Four-of-a-Kind (Quads): Again, we have a hand here that is hard to get and almost never beat by another hand. Quads are when you have four cards of the same value, such as A-A-A-A. You won’t get this hand too often, so make the best of it when you do. Like a straight flush, it is extremely rare for quads to NOT be the best hand. But if you’re up against a straight or royal flush, your hand is beat. If your four-of-a-kind value is lesser than your opponent’s four-of-a-kind value, your hand is beat.

Full House (Boat): Poker players refer to a full house as a “boat” because when you place the cards on the table, it looks like a sail boat. A full house is the combination of a three-of-a-kind and an extra pair. Let’s say you are dealt A-A and the flop comes A-3-3. You have a full house (Aces and 3’s). Once again, when assessing full house strength, the value of the three-of-a-kind must beat your opponent’s three-of-a-kind value. If it doesn’t, they win, unless there is a tie. In the event of a tie, it comes down to the value of the extra pair.

Poker Hands Order (Additional Hands)

List Of Best Poker Hands In Order

The above hands are the absolute strongest Texas hold’em hands you can possibly get. But they aren’t the only hands possible. These are the remaining six general types of poker hands you can have.

Flush: A flush is when your entire hand is of the same suit. So let’s say you have 4-9-10-J-K, all of which are clubs. You have a flush, which is a pretty darn good poker hand. You won’t flop a flush very often, but if you play the hand all the way to the river, you just might end up with one if you began the hand with two cards of the same suit.

Straight: Picking up a straight can be a sneaky strong hand because it’s always difficult to put an opponent on one. A plain straight is when your hand connects with each other and isn’t filled with the same suited cards. An example of a straight is 3-4-5-6-7. All the cards must be in order to be considered a straight. So if you have, say, 2-3-4-5-7, you have just a small straight, which is good in Yahtzee, but no good in poker.

Three-of-a-kind (Trips or Set): Although we’re way down the list of poker hand rankings, three-of-a-kind, which is self explanatory, is still very good most of the time. You just have to be a little careful when there are 3 or 4 community cards that are of the same suit or connectors. Otherwise, three-of-a-kind is a very strong hand for you to play.

Two Pair: It’s hard to make big hands in Texas hold’em. That’s why, despite being this far down the list, two pair can pay off quite well. Two pair is easy to understand. If your hand includes two pairs of cards (i.e. 4-4-5-5), then you have another fairly strong hand. You can win some big pots with two pair, but it all depends on board texture and the type of opponent you’re up against.

Pair: If you have just one pair and the rest of your cards are un-paired, it’s hard to win a big pot, but not impossible. If your opponent’s are loose players that will call down bets with just about anything, you can get paid off with top pair.

High Card: If you can’t even put together one pair, you have what is called high card. This is a weak hand that rarely will win in a showdown on the river. However, it will win occasionally if your highest cards are high value such as Ace and King.

Playing Hands Properly

The value of your hand isn’t the only thing you must take into consideration when facing a decision. You must also play your opponent. Their hand matters just as much as yours does. For example, if you have three-of-a-kind, that’s a strong hand. But having that strong hand won’t do you any good if your opponent has a better hand.

If your instincts tell you that your hand, even if it’s strong, is beat, lay your hand down. Always play smart poker. Trust your instincts and consider what your opponent may be holding. Don’t just automatically assume your hand is the best hand just because it’s strong. If you’re beat, you’re beat. The toughest part of playing poker is having the discipline to lay down a strong hand that can’t win.

In the poker game of Texas hold 'em, a starting hand consists of two hole cards, which belong solely to the player and remain hidden from the other players. Five community cards are also dealt into play. Betting begins before any of the community cards are exposed, and continues throughout the hand. The player's 'playing hand', which will be compared against that of each competing player, is the best 5-card poker hand available from his two hole cards and the five community cards. Unless otherwise specified, here the term hand applies to the player's two hole cards, or starting hand.

Essentials[edit]

There are 1326 distinct possible combinations of two hole cards from a standard 52-card deck in hold 'em, but since suits have no relative value in this poker variant, many of these hands are identical in value before the flop. For example, A♥J♥ and A♠J♠ are identical in value, because each is a hand consisting of an ace and a jack of the same suit.

Therefore, there are 169 non-equivalent starting hands in hold 'em, which is the sum total of : 13 pocket pairs, 13 × 12 / 2 = 78 suited hands and 78 unsuited hands (13 + 78 + 78 = 169).

These 169 hands are not equally likely. Hold 'em hands are sometimes classified as having one of three 'shapes':

• Pairs, (or 'pocket pairs'), which consist of two cards of the same rank (e.g. 9♠9♣). One hand in 17 will be a pair, each occurring with individual probability 1/221 (P(pair) = 3/51 = 1/17).

Alternative means of making this calculation

First Step

As confirmed above.

There are 1326 possible combination of opening hand.

Second Step

There are 6 different combos of each pair. 9h9c, 9h9s, 9h9d, 9c9s, 9c9d, 9d9s. Therefore, there are 78 possible combinations of pocket pairs (6 multiplied by 13 i.e. 22-AA)

To calculate the odds of being dealt a pair

78 (the number of any particular pair being dealt. As above) divided by 1326 (possible opening hands)

78/1326 = 0.058 or 5.8%

• Suited hands, which contain two cards of the same suit (e.g. A♣6♣). 23.5% of all starting hands are suited.

Probability of first card is 1.0 (any of the 52 cards)Probability of second hand suit matching the first:There are 13 cards per suit, and one is in your hand leaving 12 remaining of the 51 cards remaining in the deck. 12/51=.2353 or 23.5%

Best Poker Hands In Order

• Offsuit hands, which contain two cards of a different suit and rank (e.g. K♠J♥). 70.6% of all hands are offsuit hands

Offsuit pairs = 78Other offsuit hands = 936

It is typical to abbreviate suited hands in hold 'em by affixing an 's' to the hand, as well as to abbreviate non-suited hands with an 'o' (for offsuit). That is,

QQ represents any pair of queens,

KQ represents any king and queen,

AKo represents any ace and king of different suits, and

JTs represents any jack and ten of the same suit.

Limit hand rankings[edit]

Some notable theorists and players have created systems to rank the value of starting hands in limit Texas hold'em. These rankings do not apply to no limit play.

Sklansky hand groups[edit]

David Sklansky and Mason Malmuth^[1] assigned in 1999 each hand to a group, and proposed all hands in the group could normally be played similarly. Stronger starting hands are identified by a lower number. Hands without a number are the weakest starting hands. As a general rule, books on Texas hold'em present hand strengths starting with the assumption of a nine or ten person table. The table below illustrates the concept:

Chen formula[edit]

The 'Chen Formula' is a way to compute the 'power ratings' of starting hands that was originally developed by Bill Chen.^[2]

Highest Card

Based on the highest card, assign points as follows:

Ace = 10 points, K = 8 points, Q = 7 points, J = 6 points.

10 through 2, half of face value (10 = 5 points, 9 = 4.5 points, etc.)

Pairs

For pairs, multiply the points by 2 (AA=20, KK=16, etc.), with a minimum of 5 points for any pair. 55 is given an extra point (i.e., 6).

Suited

Add 2 points for suited cards.

Closeness

Subtract 1 point for 1 gappers (AQ, J9)

2 points for 2 gappers (J8, AJ).

4 points for 3 gappers (J7, 73).

5 points for larger gappers, including A2 A3 A4

Add an extra point if connected or 1-gap and your highest card is lower than Q (since you then can make all higher straights)

Phil Hellmuth's: 'Play Poker Like the Pros'[edit]

Phil Hellmuth's 'Play Poker Like the Pros' book published in 2003.

Statistics based on real online play[edit]

Statistics based on real play with their associated actual value in real bets.^[3]

Nicknames for starting hands[edit]

In poker communities, it is common for hole cards to be given nicknames. While most combinations have a nickname, stronger handed nicknames are generally more recognized, the most notable probably being the 'Big Slick' - Ace and King of the same suit, although an Ace-King of any suit combination is less occasionally referred to as an Anna Kournikova, derived from the initials AK and because it 'looks really good but rarely wins.'^[4][5] Hands can be named according to their shapes (e.g., paired aces look like 'rockets', paired jacks look like 'fish hooks'); a historic event (e.g., A's and 8's - dead man's hand, representing the hand held by Wild Bill Hickok when he was fatally shot in the back by Jack McCall in 1876); many other reasons like animal names, alliteration and rhyming are also used in nicknames.

Notes[edit]

1. ^David Sklansky and Mason Malmuth (1999). Hold 'em Poker for Advanced Players. Two Plus Two Publications. ISBN1-880685-22-1
2. ^Hold'em Excellence: From Beginner to Winner by Lou Krieger, Chapter 5, pages 39 - 43, Second Edition
3. ^http://www.pokerroom.com/poker/poker-school/ev-stats/total-stats-by-card/^{[dead link]}
4. ^Aspden, Peter (2007-05-19). 'FT Weekend Magazine - Non-fiction: Stakes and chips Las Vegas and the internet have helped poker become the biggest game in town'. Financial Times. Retrieved 2010-01-10.
5. ^Martain, Tim (2007-07-15). 'A little luck helps out'. Sunday Tasmanian. Retrieved 2010-01-10.