Standard Hand Rankings:

• Royal flush:
  
• Straight flush:
  
• Four of a kind:
  
• Full house:
  
• Flush:
  
• Straight:
  
• Three of a kind:
  
• Two pair:
  
• One pair:
  
• High card:
  

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General Rules:
The following general rules apply to evaluating poker hands, whatever set of hand values are used.

• Individual cards are ranked A (high), K, Q, J, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, A. Aces only appear low when part of an A-2-3-4-5straight or straight flush. Individual card ranks are used to compare hands that contain no pairs or other special combinations, or to compare the kickers of otherwise equal hands. The ace plays low only in ace-to-five and ace-to-six lowball games, and plays high only in deuce-to-seven lowball.
• Suits have no value. The suits of the cards are mainly used in determining whether a hand fits a certain category (specifically the flush and straight flush hands). In most variants, if two players have hands that are identical except for suit, then they are tied and split the pot (so 3? 4? 5? 6? 7? does not beat 3? 4? 5? 6? 7?). Sometimes a ranking called high card by suit is used for randomly selecting a player to deal. Low card by suit usually determines the bringin bettor in stud games.
• A hand always consists of five cards. In games where more than five cards are available to each player, the best five-card combination of those cards plays.
• Hands are ranked first by category, then by individual card ranks: even the lowest qualifying hand in a certain category defeats all hands in all lower categories. The smallest two pair hand (2? 2? 3? 3? 4?), for example, defeats all hands with justone pair or high card. Only between two hands in the same category are card ranks used to break ties.

List of poker hands. (2008, September 16). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 14:05, September 16, 2008, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_poker_hands&oldid=238759895

For rules please see our Poker Rules section.