Royal Flush
Ace, king, queen, jack, and ten, all of the same suit (A♠︎ K♠︎ Q♠︎ J♠︎ 10♠︎, for example). It's the highest straight flush and the best poker hand.
Poker handsPoker Hands: Rankings Chart, Rules and Free Poker Trainer
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The same poker hand rankings apply in Texas Hold'em, Omaha, and almost every other version of the game. There are 10 poker hands, ranked from the royal flush at the top down to a high card at the bottom. Learn this one list, and you can read any showdown at any table.
This poker hands guide gives you the full poker hands chart, the odds of finishing with each hand in Texas Hold'em, the rules of the game in a few lines, the starting hands worth playing, and a free poker trainer that quizzes you on real hands until the rankings stick. The chart also prints as a one-page poker cheat sheet you can keep next to you while you play.
Poker Hand Rankings: All 10 Hands From Best to Worst
Poker hand rankings follow one rule: the rarer a hand is in a five-card deal, the higher it ranks. A royal flush lands just once in 649,740 five-card deals. No pair at all turns up in about half of them and sits at the bottom.
| Rank | Hand | Example | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Royal flush | A♠︎K♠︎Q♠︎J♠︎10♠︎ | Ace to ten, all the same suit |
| 2 | Straight flush | 9♥︎8♥︎7♥︎6♥︎5♥︎ | Five in a row, all the same suit |
| 3 | Four of a kind | Q♣︎Q♦︎Q♥︎Q♠︎7♦︎ | Four cards of the same rank |
| 4 | Full house | K♠︎K♥︎K♦︎9♣︎9♠︎ | Three of a kind plus a pair |
| 5 | Flush | A♦︎J♦︎8♦︎6♦︎2♦︎ | Five cards of the same suit, any order |
| 6 | Straight | 10♣︎9♦︎8♠︎7♥︎6♣︎ | Five in a row, mixed suits |
| 7 | Three of a kind | 7♠︎7♥︎7♦︎K♣︎2♠︎ | Three cards of the same rank |
| 8 | Two pair | J♠︎J♦︎4♣︎4♥︎A♠︎ | Two different pairs |
| 9 | One pair | 10♥︎10♣︎K♠︎8♦︎3♣︎ | Two cards of the same rank |
| 10 | High card | A♣︎Q♦︎9♠︎6♥︎3♣︎ | None of the above; the highest card plays |
Whatever the game, you always make your best five cards from all cards available - your hole cards (private cards dealt to you) and the community cards (cards dealt face-up that anyone can use).
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Poker hand rankings with a quiz, opening-hand charts for every seat at 8-max and 6-max cash tables, a practice trainer, and pot odds and equity calculators.
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The 10 poker hands from best to worst. Any hand beats every hand below it, and you always play your best five cards.
Odds are the chance of finishing with each hand in Texas Hold'em, using the best five of your seven cards.
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Is calling a bet with a drawing hand worth it? Enter the pot, the bet and your outs.
Pot odds ignore money you could win on later streets (implied odds). With a draw to the best hand and deep stacks, a call that's slightly short on pot odds can still pay off.
How often does each hand win? Pick two hands and, if you like, the board.
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The charts are a simplified opening strategy for no-limit Hold'em cash games at 100 big blinds, when everyone before you has folded. Against limpers, raises or very short stacks, the right play changes.
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The Hand rankings tab shows the ten hands with a "which hand wins?" quiz that deals two hands and asks you to pick the winner. Starting hands gives you opening charts for 8-max and 6-max tables, so you know which two cards are worth playing from each seat.
Trainer deals you a hand in a random position, asks you to raise or fold, then tells you whether you got it right. Pot odds is a crucial poker odds calculator for draws: enter the pot, the bet, and your outs, and it shows in dollars whether the call pays. Equity is a poker calculator that runs two hands against each other and shows how often each one wins.
It's free, needs no sign-up, and works on any device.
Every Poker Hand Explained
Straight Flush
Five cards in sequence, all the same suit, that stop short of the ace-high royal: 9♥︎ 8♥︎ 7♥︎ 6♥︎ 5♥︎ is a nine-high straight flush. If two players each have one, the higher top card wins, so a ten-high straight flush beats the nine-high one. Suits never break a tie.
Four of a Kind
Four cards of the same rank plus one side card: Q♣︎ Q♦︎ Q♥︎ Q♠︎ 7♦︎ is quad queens. Higher quads beat lower quads. When two players share the same quads from the board, the fifth card, the kicker, decides it.
Full House
Three of a kind and a pair together: K♠︎ K♥︎ K♦︎ 9♣︎ 9♠︎ reads as "kings full of nines". The three-card part is compared first, so kings full always beats queens full, whatever the pairs are. Only if the trips (three cards) match does the higher pair win.
Flush
Any five cards of the same suit, in no particular order: A♦︎ J♦︎ 8♦︎ 6♦︎ 2♦︎ is an ace-high flush. Between two flushes, compare the highest card, then the next, and so on down all five. An ace-high flush beats a king-high flush, whatever the other cards are.
Straight
Five cards in sequence with mixed suits: 10♣︎ 9♦︎ 8♠︎ 7♥︎ 6♣︎ is a ten-high straight. The highest card decides ties. The ace can play low in A-2-3-4-5 (the wheel, the lowest straight) or high in 10-J-Q-K-A, but it never wraps around: Q-K-A-2-3 is not a straight.
Three of a Kind
Three cards of the same rank with two unrelated side cards: 7♠︎ 7♥︎ 7♦︎ K♣︎ 2♠︎ is three sevens. Players call it a set when you hold a pocket pair and the board brings the third card, and trips when two of the three are on the board. Higher three of a kind wins. If two players share the same trips, the higher kicker decides, then the second kicker if the first ones match.
Two Pair
Two different pairs plus a kicker: J♠︎ J♦︎ 4♣︎ 4♥︎ A♠︎ is "jacks and fours". The higher pair is compared first, then the lower pair, and only then the kicker. Jacks and fours beat tens and nines because the top pair is higher.
One Pair
Two cards of the same rank and three side cards: 10♥︎ 10♣︎ K♠︎ 8♦︎ 3♣︎ is a pair of tens with a king kicker. Higher pairs win. Two identical pairs are settled by the kickers in order, highest first, which is why the side cards matter so much in Hold'em.
High Card
No pair, no straight, no flush: A♣︎ Q♦︎ 9♠︎ 6♥︎ 3♣︎ is simply ace-high. It's the weakest of the ten poker hands and still wins pots when nobody else connects. Ties go card by card from the top, so ace-queen-high beats ace-jack-high.
Poker Odds: How Often Each Hand Comes Up
The poker odds below are your chances of finishing with each hand as your best five cards out of seven in Texas Hold'em: your two hole cards plus the five on the board. They're much higher than the odds in a straight five-card deal, because seven cards give you more ways to connect.
| Hand | Chance | Roughly 1 in |
|---|---|---|
| Royal flush | 0.0032% | 30,940 |
| Straight flush | 0.028% | 3,590 |
| Four of a kind | 0.17% | 595 |
| Full house | 2.6% | 38.5 |
| Flush | 3.0% | 33 |
| Straight | 4.6% | 21.6 |
| Three of a kind | 4.8% | 20.7 |
| Two pair | 23.5% | 4.3 |
| One pair | 43.8% | 2.3 |
| High card | 17.4% | 5.7 |
Two things stand out. One pair is the most common finishing hand by a wide margin, which is why a single pair wins so many small showdowns and loses so many big pots. And with seven cards, high card is much rarer than two pair, so if you reach the river with nothing, assume at least one opponent has paired.
For the odds of completing a draw you're still chasing, the Pot odds tab in the trainer above does the arithmetic for your exact hand.
Which Hand Wins? Kickers, Ties and Split Pots
Most arguments at the table come from four poker rules, not from the rankings themselves.
- Suits never rank. Spades don't beat hearts, for example. Two flushes with the same five ranks are identical, and the pot splits.
- Kickers decide hands of the same rank. With A-A-K against A-A-Q, both players have a pair of aces and the king kicker wins. Kickers are compared one at a time, highest first, until one is higher or all five cards match.
- If the board is the best hand for everyone, the pot splits. When the five community cards make a hand that neither player can improve, both "play the board" and share the pot.
- The ace is high or low in a straight, never both. A-2-3-4-5 is the lowest straight and 10-J-Q-K-A is the highest, but the ace can't join the two ends.
A worked showdown. The board reads K♠︎ 10♦︎ 7♣︎ 7♥︎ 2♠︎. Player A holds A♦︎ K♦︎ and Player B holds K♣︎ Q♣︎. Both have two pair, kings and sevens, so the decision moves to the kicker. Player A's ace beats Player B's queen, and A takes the pot. Had Player B held K♣︎ A♣︎ instead, both hands would be identical and the pot would split.
Texas Hold'em Rules: How a Hand Works
Poker rules vary by version, but Texas Hold'em is the game almost every online room and casino deals, so these are the rules worth knowing first. A hand runs in seven steps.
- Blinds. The two players to the left of the dealer button post forced bets, the small blind and the big blind, so there's money in the pot before any cards are dealt.
- Hole cards. Everyone receives two cards face down. Only you can see yours.
- Preflop betting. Starting with the player left of the big blind, each player acts in turn. The round ends when everyone still in has put in the same amount.
- The flop. Three community cards are dealt face up in the middle, then a betting round starts with the first active player left of the button.
- The turn. A fourth community card is dealt, followed by a betting round.
- The river. The fifth and last community card is dealt, followed by the final betting round.
- Showdown. The players still in reveal their cards, and the best five-card hand made from each player's two hole cards and the five on the board wins the pot.
When it's your turn, you have five options: fold (give up the hand), check (pass when there's no bet to match), call (match the current bet), bet (put the first money in on that street), or raise (increase a bet someone else made).
In no-limit Hold'em, you can bet any amount up to your whole stack at any time. It's the version played in most online cash games and tournaments. In limit Hold'em, the bet sizes are fixed per street, so pots stay smaller, and more decisions come down to whether to call.
Starting Hands: Which Hands to Play Preflop
The biggest difference between a winning Texas Hold'em player and a losing one shows up before the flop: winning players fold most of the hands they're dealt. Which hands you keep depends on where you sit. The later you act, the more you know about the players before you, so late seats can open far wider than early ones.
The opening charts in the trainer put numbers on that. From under the gun at an 8-max table, the first seat to act, the chart opens about 15% of hands. On the button, the last seat to act, it opens about 46%. Every seat in between falls somewhere along that range.
A few poker hands are worth playing from any seat: AA, KK, QQ, and AK. The common traps are weak aces like A-7 offsuit. These can look strong but lose to better aces, and unsuited low cards like 8-4, which rarely make anything worth betting.
The Starting hands tab shows the full chart for each seat, and the Trainer tab deals you hands in random positions until the folds become automatic.
Simple – one chart with the right play for every hand. We also have a cool blackjack trainer.
Poker Cheat Sheet: Print or Save as PDF
Both charts print as a one-page poker cheat sheet straight from the tool. Tap Print on the Hand rankings tab for the ten hands with examples, or on the Starting hands tab for the opening ranges from every seat at the table size you've selected, 8-max or 6-max. Each one fits on a single sheet or saves as a PDF on your phone.
The rankings poker cheat sheet is the one to keep next to a home game. It settles a showdown in seconds.
ترتيب اوراق البوكر: من الأقوى إلى الأضعف
إذا كنت تلعب بوكر أو تتابعه، فأول ما تحتاج أن تحفظه هو ترتيب اوراق البوكر: عشر أيدٍ فقط، والأندر منها هو الأقوى، وكل يد تغلب كل ما هو أدنى منها في القائمة. الترتيب نفسه ينطبق على تكساس هولدم وعلى معظم نسخ لعبة البوكر الأخرى، وتجد شرحاً أوسع باللغة العربية في صفحة ترتيب البوكر.
- رويال فلاش (Royal Flush): الآص والشايب والبنت والولد والعشرة من نفس الشكل، وهي أقوى يد في البوكر.
- ستريت فلاش (Straight Flush): خمس أوراق متتالية من نفس الشكل، والأعلى منها يغلب الأدنى.
- أربعة من نوع واحد (Four of a Kind): أربع أوراق من نفس الرقم مع ورقة خامسة.
- فول هاوس (Full House): ثلاث أوراق من رقم واحد وورقتان من رقم آخر.
- فلاش (Flush): خمس أوراق من نفس الشكل بأي ترتيب.
- ستريت (Straight): خمس أوراق متتالية من أشكال مختلفة، والآص يصلح في الأعلى أو في الأسفل لكن ليس في الاثنين معاً.
- ثلاثة من نوع واحد (Three of a Kind): ثلاث أوراق من نفس الرقم مع ورقتين مختلفتين.
- زوجان (Two Pair): زوجان من رقمين مختلفين مع ورقة خامسة.
- زوج واحد (One Pair): ورقتان من نفس الرقم مع ثلاث أوراق مختلفة.
- الورقة الأعلى (High Card): لا شيء مما سبق، وتُحسب اليد بأعلى ورقة فيها.
عند تساوي يدين من النوع نفسه تُقارن الأوراق واحدة واحدة من الأعلى، والأشكال لا تفرّق أبداً.
قوانين البوكر باختصار
في تكساس هولدم تحصل على ورقتين مخفيتين لك وحدك، ثم تُكشف خمس أوراق مشتركة على الطاولة على ثلاث مراحل: ثلاث أوراق ثم ورقة ثم ورقة. هناك جولة رهان قبل كشف أي ورقة وبعد كل مرحلة، أي أربع جولات في اليد الواحدة، وفي كل جولة إما تنسحب أو تساوي الرهان أو ترفعه. في النهاية تُكوّن أفضل خمس أوراق من السبع المتاحة لك، وصاحب أقوى يد يأخذ ما في الوسط.
الأداة التفاعلية في أعلى الصفحة تختبرك على ترتيب الأيدي وتعطيك جداول الأيدي الافتتاحية لكل مقعد. واجهتها بالإنجليزية، لكن الأوراق والأرقام تُقرأ بأي لغة.
Where to Play Poker Online
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Poker Hands FAQs
What is the best hand in poker?
The royal flush: ace, king, queen, jack, and ten, all of one suit. It can't be beaten, and it can only tie with another royal flush, which in Texas Hold'em only happens when all five cards are on the board. You'll finish with one about once in 30,940 Hold'em hands.
Does a flush beat a straight?
Yes. A flush ranks above a straight because it's rarer: in Texas Hold'em you finish with a flush about 3.0% of the time and with a straight about 4.6% of the time. A straight flush, which is both, ranks above either.
What beats a full house?
Only three hands: four of a kind, a straight flush, and a royal flush. When two players both hold a full house, the higher three of a kind wins, so kings full of twos beats queens full of aces. The pair only matters if the trips are the same.
Do suits matter in poker?
No. Suits never rank in standard poker, so a flush in spades is no better than a flush in hearts. Two flushes are compared by their highest card, then the next, and if all five ranks match, the pot is split. Suits only settle a few side matters, such as who posts the bring-in in stud poker games.
Is an ace high or low in poker?
Both. The ace is the highest card in the deck, which is why ace-high beats king-high, and it can also play low in the straight A-2-3-4-5, the wheel. It can't do both in the same straight: Q-K-A-2-3 is not a straight.
What happens when two players have the same hand?
First compare the ranks inside the hand, then the kickers one at a time from the highest. If all five cards match in rank, the pot splits equally. With a board of 9-9-5-5-2, a player holding A-K and one holding A-Q both have two pair with an ace kicker, so the pot splits.
How many poker hands are there?
There are 2,598,960 possible five-card hands from a 52-card deck, and they fall into the 10 categories on this page. Ranked by strength, they come down to 7,462 distinct values, from the lowest high card to the royal flush.
What are the basic poker rules for Texas Hold'em?
Each player gets two private cards; five shared cards are dealt face up in three stages; there are a maximum of four betting rounds. If the round goes to showdown, the best five-card hand from each player's seven available cards wins the pot. The full step-by-step poker rules are in the Texas Hold'em section above.
