Poker Cards And Values (Continue)

Now, all of this information is pretty basic information, what you probably already knew. The next step is to learn more about the meat of the poker game in particular.

Poker Hands

The goal of the game in poker is to end up with the cards with the highest value in your hand. Yet, that’s not necessarily as easy as it sounds. Here are the hands that you can wind up with. They are listed in the highest value first, down to the lowest value.

Royal Flush:


A royal flush is the most valuable hand possible. It is made up of a hand of cards that include the 10, jack, queen, king and ace, all the same suit. In other words, you would have a 10 of clubs, a jack of clubs, a queen of clubs, a king of clubs and an ace of clubs in your hand. This is the most difficult hand to get, of course.



Straight Flush:

A straight flush is the next most valuable. It is made up of five cards in numerical order. They are all of the same suit. You can not have a “wrap around value” though. In other words, the Ace and the 2 do not combine in the same straight flush hand. An example: 7 of hearts, 8 of hearts, 9 of hearts, 10 or hearts, and the jack of hearts equals a straight flush.

Note, if more than one of these is had in a row, someone is cheating. Also, if two people get a straight flush in the game, the highest valued flush will win the hand.



Four Of A Kind:

The next valued hand is that of four of a kind. Here, you have four cards in numerical order of the same suit with one additional card. If two players have a hand like this in the same round, then the player with the highest value wins the hand. An example: 4 of clubs, 5 of clubs, 6 of clubs, 7 of clubs and a 2 of diamonds.

Full House:

A full house is a combination of five cards in the hand where three of the cards have the same numerical rank and the two remaining cards also have the same matching numerical rank. When there are two people with this same type of hand, the person who holds cards that have a higher value in the set of three that are the same, wins the hand. Then, the pair is used to divide the hand if necessary.

Example: King of spades, king of diamonds, king of hearts, five of hearts, and five of spades.

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