Poker is a popular game because it is the right mixture of skill and luck. It is not only having great hand that is important, it is what you do with that hand you are dealt with. Whether or not it is great, that is an important factor in the game of poker. Before you can attempt to strategize or enjoy the psychological mind games that poker brings, you have to understand the basics of the game. And one of them is knowing what the best poker hands are. The best poker hands, or rather learning the poker hand combinations, are sort of the foundation you need to know to be able to play poker. Determining the best poker hand or how to make combinations out of the cards you are holding is important.
In poker, players make up five cards that comply with the predetermined rules of the games. The combination varies from the type of poker you are playing. In any case, these hands are compared via hand ranking system. This system is standard and applies to the many game varieties of poker. In poker, the player who holds the highest ranking hand is determined as the winner in that poker round. Of course, some exceptions occur in a variety of poker games which determines the winner by the lowest ranking hand or in some cases, a tie.
These poker hand values, as we have mentioned, are mostly used in poker, but the hand ranking can also be applied in some card games and in poker dice.
Generally, the ranking of a particular hand is upped in value by adding multiple cards with the same card rank (pair, three of a kind, full house, four of a kind), when all five cards being from the same suit (flush) or by all of the five cards in the hand being consecutive numbers (straight). The relative ranking of the different hand types is based on the probability of being dealt randomly from a well-shuffled deck.
The rules we will mention here are applicable to all poker hands. On the average, the rules say there are 7,000 ++ ranks that are of distinct value.
The first rule is the hands in poker will always consist of five cards. In a poker game, where the player is given more than five cards, the best five-card combination should be determined. Any card which is not part of a player's hand has no effect on the hand ranking. An example of this is if a player holds an ace, a three of spades, queen of diamonds. Player B holds an ace of clubs and 3 of clubs. Then the five cards at the table are 4 of clubs, five of diamonds, 6 of diamonds, 7 of spades and 10 of hearts. Players A and B will hold equal ranking 3-4-5-6-7 straights, this is despite the truth that player B's ace ranks higher than player A's queen.
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