Texas Holdem Hand Rankings

The hand rankings is considerably one of the most important factor you have to know and master when you are actually into Texas Holdem Poker. However, knowing and mastering all of the hand rankings is not that easy. More so when in terms of the best Texas Holdem hand ranking.

The Royal Flush

At present, the Royal Flush hand is considered as the strongest or best hand in all of poker. As a general rule, you have to get a 10, J, Q, K, A of the same suit for you to have a royal flush. This seems easy and in fact some says it is just more on luck.

More on luck, quite true. But easy? Well think twice. Though you don’t need much special skills to get a royal flush hand, you more or less have to know which cards will best determine the winning hand. You need to have some strategies. Most especially, you have to know which card to disregard and which one to keep.

Other Texas Holdem Hand Rankings

Straight Flush

Any series of 5 consecutive cards of the same suit.

Example - 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 of Hearts

Four Of A Kind

Four cards of the same suit or rank.

Example - 5555K.

The fifth card will normally won’t matter at all

Full House

The hand is made of one three-of-a-kind and one pair. In other words, the hand is made of three cards of the same rank and two cards of another equal rank.

Example - 55588.

Flush

A hand of the same suit.

Example - Q9853, all Hearts.

If two players have a flush, then the player with the highest card of that suit wins the hand. If the highest cards are equal move to the second, then to the third, etc.

Straight

A descending row of different suits.

Example - KQJT9 of different suits.(K of hearts, Q of spades…).

If two players have straits, the strait with the highest card wins.

Three Of A Kind

Three cards of the same value.

Example – J9993 different suits.

Two Pairs

? Two pairs of he same value.

Example - TT 55 2 of different suits.

One Pair

One pair of cards with the same value.