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Poker hand rankings: what beats what
Ten hands, strongest first. Every one of them is made from the best five cards out of the seven available to you in Hold'em — your two cards and the five on the table — so you never have to “use” a card that doesn't help.
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Royal flush
A♠ K♠ Q♠ J♠ 10♠
Ten to ace, all one suit. The one hand that cannot be beaten, only tied.
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Straight flush
9♥ 8♥ 7♥ 6♥ 5♥
Five in a row, all one suit. Between two of them, the higher top card wins.
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Four of a kind
Q♠ Q♥ Q♦ Q♣ 7♠
All four of one rank. The fifth card breaks a tie between equal quads.
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Full house
8♠ 8♥ 8♦ 4♠ 4♣
Three of one rank and two of another. The three-card part is compared first, so eights full of fours beats sevens full of aces.
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Flush
A♦ J♦ 8♦ 5♦ 2♦
Five of one suit, in any order. Compared card by card from the top — no suit outranks another.
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Straight
J♠ 10♦ 9♦ 8♣ 7♥
Five in a row of mixed suits. The ace plays both ends: A-K-Q-J-10 is the highest, and A-2-3-4-5 — “the wheel” — is the lowest, where the ace counts as a one.
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Three of a kind
5♠ 5♥ 5♦ K♠ 9♣
Three of one rank, then the two highest remaining cards decide a tie.
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Two pair
A♠ A♣ 6♥ 6♦ Q♠
Higher pair first, then the lower pair, then the fifth card. Aces and sixes beats kings and queens.
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One pair
10♠ 10♥ A♦ 8♣ 3♠
Two of a rank plus the three highest cards left, compared in order.
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High card
A♠ J♦ 9♣ 6♥ 3♠
Nothing made. All five cards are compared from the top down.
How ties really work
Only the best five cards count, and if two players hold the same five, the pot is split — suits never break a tie in Hold'em. This catches people out when the board plays: if the table shows A-K-Q-J-10 and neither player can improve on it, everyone still in the hand has the same straight and chops the pot.
How often each hand appears
These are the chances of ending up with each hand once all five community cards are out, using the best five of your seven:
| Hand | Roughly |
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| Straight flush or better | 1 in 3,000 |
| Four of a kind | 1 in 600 |
| Full house | 1 in 37 |
| Flush | 1 in 32 |
| Straight | 1 in 21 |
| Three of a kind | 1 in 21 |
| Two pair | 1 in 4 |
| One pair | about 4 in 9 |
| High card only | about 1 in 6 |
Which is worth remembering next time a flush loses to a full house and it feels unfair: full houses turn up slightly more often than flushes, which is exactly why they beat them.
See it for yourself
The calculator plays any two hands against each other and shows the real numbers. A couple of examples to open directly:
- Aces against kings before the flop — the biggest favourite in the game
- Ace-king suited against queens — the classic coin flip
- A flush and straight draw against ace-king — why draws are worth more than they look