What are the poker hands you use to beat your opponents? From a simple pair of cards to the mighty Straight Flush: in an online poker game, you can get up to ten different poker combinations to score the pot of inlay. What poker hands are there, and what are they worth? Read all about the poker hands here and improve your poker game!
A 'poker hand' is a combination of one to five cards that you can show at the end of the game. The player who is still in the game and can show the highest poker hand wins all bets made during the game. As the game progresses, more and more cards come into play, which can change each player's chances of winning.
Poker hands you collect during the game, and which cards count depends on the variant of poker. In Draw Poker and Stud Poker, you can only form poker hands with the cards that you are dealt or exchanged yourself. In games with community cards, such as the popular Texas Hold'em , also count the community cards that are on the table. In this case, you can form your winning hand with one or more cards from your hand and/or the cards on the table.
You can already have a good hand at the beginning, for example, if you receive two aces. But you can also remain in uncertainty for a long time which poker hands will arise. Will there be another gentleman on the table, with whom your opponents can replenish their poker hands? Will you be dealt another card to complete your flush? On some poker hands you have to anticipate and keep going with the possible increases. Other poker hands become visible from the beginning, and then you can raise yourself to make your opponents more money.
If you and another player end up with the same poker hands, for example both with two aces, then the subsequent high card is looked at. In poker, the five best cards are always dealt at the end of the game.
If you have two aces and a woman as the highest cards, and the other player has two aces and a jack, you win because your woman is higher than the opponent's Jack. That decisive extra card is called a 'kicker'.
Time to discuss the poker hands. The following poker card combinations are basically valid in all versions of poker, from Caribbean Stud to Hi/Lo. We discuss them from low to high and tell you what the chances are that you or another player will get them. We sometimes go into special rules for the poker hands of Texas Hold'em, because that is the most played poker variant.
This is the simplest poker’combination', which only wins if no other poker hands can be formed. It's actually not a combination at all: the High Card is the highest card a player can show
see. Often it involves a high card such as an ace, Lord or queen, but in theory you can also win with a three, if all other players only have twos in their hand!
As a reminder, here is the order of all poker cards, from low to high: two – three – four – five – six – seven – eight – nine – ten – jack – queen – Lord – ace.
A pair of the same Cards is often enough to win the game. Two queens, two eights or even the modest combination of two deuces, it's all worth more than a High Card. Are you the one who ends the game with a pair, and can't the opposing players show better poker hands? Then you rake that pot in!
What happens when two players have a pair at the end of the game? Then, as with the High Card, it is about the highest cards in the game. Two aces beat two sevens, and two Sevens beat two fours. Therefore, a pair of Aces is a very nice set of starting cards. Also because you can expand one pair over the course of the game to an even more powerful combination, such as three of a kind.
The next winning combination is the two pair. Do you have two fours and two gentlemen in your hand? Or do you have one pair in your hand and there is another pair on the table? You win with two pairs.
If two players have both two pairs, then the player who can show the very best pair wins again. A player with two aces and two deuces wins against a player with two men and two women.
This combination consists of three same cards, for example, Three Sevens. Higher triples are worth more than lower triples, and if two players have the same three, then the next highest card, the kicker, is looked at again.
A combination of five cards whose numerical values follow one another. The klNZD (hearts, spades and so on) in this case does not matter. Higher streets (for example 8 – 9 – 10 – peasant woman) are worth more than lower streets (for example 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6).
The flush and the straight are poker hands that are sometimes confused with each other. A flush is a combination of five cards of the same klNZD: five hearts, five clubs, five spades or five diamonds. The numerical value of the Cards is only interesting if two players end up with a flush.
A combination of a pair and a three of a kind, for example two sevens and three gents. If two players have a full house, it is again the highest cards present in one of their poker hands.
A hand of four same cards, for example, four aces. Two fours of a kind are again about the highest card, and otherwise about the kicker card.
Because poker is basically played with a single deck of cards, poker hands are five the same Cards are not possible. There is no " Five of a kind."
The powerful combination of a straight and a flush, i.e. a series of numbers that follow each other and have the same klNZD. An example is the combination of 4 – 5 – 6 – 7 – 8, where all cards are diamonds. There are only two poker hands that beat a Straight Flush: a higher Straight Flush and a Royal Flush.
The king of all poker hands. The Royal Flush is similar to the Straight Flush, so a series of consecutive numbers in the same klNZD. But the Royal Flush must also consist of the highest cards in the game: Ten – Jack – Queen – Lord – ace, and all cards have the same klNZD.
Do you have a Royal Flush? Congratulate yourself in advance, because the chance that an opponent also has a Royal Flush is nil. And try to jack up that pot as far as possible!
Above you can see all the poker hands that can lead to winnings in almost all poker versions. Some versions, such as online video poker there are also poker hands called side bets. For example, if you the game " Captain Jack or Better’ starting with two pawns, you get a significant payout if you have bet on this side bet. These side bets usually have no effect on the further course of the game, with the aforementioned poker combinations leading the way.
