For those unfamiliar with poker rules and the game of Poker, along with others who might want a refresher, this is the most basic of basic poker. The various games are based on this.
Texas Holdem is a Poker game in which players with fully or partially-concealed cards make wagers into a communal pot during the course of a hand, after which the pot is awarded to the player or players with the best combination of cards.
Poker is a game of five card hands dealt from a 52 card deck of standard playing cards. All poker hands consist of exactly five cards. Most games, like seven card stud for example, give the players more than five cards to select from, but the final winning result goes to the one with the best five card poker hand. In the popular stud poker games, the players are all dealt one card at a time or in small groups and they bet money each time they get more cards. They bet that they will end up with the best hand. The players that don't want to bet on their hands any longer can 'fold' their hands, get out of the contest and forfeit all the bets they have made to that point. At the end, the player with the best poker hand wins all the bets. In draw poker the players bet, then replace the cards they don't like with new ones from the dealer and then bet again.
The best hand is determined by the Poker Hand Ranking chart below.
Mobile Users - I've created a special chart in universal .pdf format for easy viewing on narrow screens. The original large chart is also available for downloading, viewing or printing.
Mobile - hand-rankings-mobile.pdf
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Rules for the More Popular Poker Games
Poker Rules For Texas Holdem Hand Rankingand Rankings
Basic Poker Resources
Texas Holdem Poker Rules Printable
- Poker Terms - Before sitting down at a poker table, new players should check out my glossary and get familiar with some of the poker lingo.
Can you name thesePoker Legends?
In 1978, Doyle Brunson, two time winner of the 'World Championship of Poker' at Binions Horseshoe in Las Vegas, published probably the best ever written book on casino level poker games. This 600 page, 3 lb. volume is more like an encyclopedia reference than a typical poker book. The work is packed with sound professional advice with volumes of stats for advanced players and was strangely named 'How I Made Over $1,000,000 Playing Poker'. In reprint, it is now named 'Super System'.
For this classic, Brunson enlisted the services of some of the best professional poker players in the world, all champions in their own right, to collaborate the authoring of the game sections of their particular specialties. The cartoon of this world class poker game is shown on the books inside front cover. Here are the players and their game contributions.
1. DOYLE BRUNSON - No Limit Hold'em 2. MIKE CARO - Draw Poker 3. JOEY HAWTHORN - Five and Seven Card Lowball 4. DAVID SKLANSKY - Seven Card Stud, High-Low Split 5. CHIP REESE - Seven Card Stud 6. BOBBY BALDWIN - Limit Hold'em
Poker Hand Ranking : Poker Sequence of Texas Holdem Cards
Now that you have learned how to play Poker, check out which Poker Hand wins over another in Texas Holdem Poker game. Below here is the list of Poker Hands from best to worst:
Poker Rules For Texas Holdem Hand Rankingngs
Royal Flush A royal flush is an ace high straight flush. |
Straight Flush Five cards of the same suit in numerical order. |
Four of a Kind (Quads) Quads are four cards of equal rank/any suit. |
Full House or Full Boat Three of a kind and a Pair. |
Flush Five cards of the same suit. |
Straight Five cards in numerical order. |
Three of a Kind / Set Three cards of the same rank. |
Two Pair Two different pairs. |
One Pair Two cards of the same rank. |
High Card The hand with the highest card(s) wins. |
Kicker Card
Kickers or side cards are the leftover cards after a poker hand is declared. Although Kickers do not take part in determining the rank of a hand, they are essential to declare the winner if players have the same hand. Thus, a Kicker card can also be called a Tie Breaker Card in the game of poker.
Texas Holdem Poker Rules Hands
For example :
The poker hand J-J-10-5-2 is ranked as a pair of jacks. The 10, 5, and 2 are kickers. This hand would defeat any poker hand with no pair, or with a lower-ranking pair, and lose to any higher-ranking poker hand. The kickers can be used to break ties between other poker hands that also have a pair of jacks. For example, J-J-K-3-2 would win (because its K kicker outranks the 10), but J-J-10-4-3 would lose (because its 4 is outranked by the 5).