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Highest Suit Poker Order

4/13/2022
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The suit of the cards is irrelevant in all hands except flushes and straight flushes (including royal). Two flushes of different suits, but with the same card ranks, results in a tie, however that is very rare in all game variants and impossible in Hold'em since the board requires three cards of one suit for anyone to have a flush in that suit. Poker articles Poker Hand Ranking. The poker deck consists of 52 cards that are ordered by poker card rank in the following order: A, K, Q, J, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2. The same cards of different suits have the same poker card rank. For example - the king of spades and the king of hearts both have the same value. A poker hand consists of.

Every poker player knows that the Royal Flush is the strongest poker hand, but where do all of the other poker winning hands rank? Here is a comprehensive list of poker hands in order from highest to lowest ranking. If you are new to the game of poker, learning the different poker hands is a great first step in learning how to beat your opponents with the cards you are dealt.

#1 Royal Flush

The strongest poker hand is the royal flush. It consists of Ten, Jack, Queen, King, and Ace, all of the same suit, e.g. diamonds, spades, hearts, or clubs.

#2 Straight Flush

The second strongest hand in poker is the straight flush. It is composed of five consecutive cards of the same suit. If two players have a straight flush, the player with the highest cards wins.

#3 Four-of-a-kind

A four-of-a-kind is four cards of the same rank, e.g. four Aces. If two players have four-of-a-kind, then the one with the highest four-of-a-kind wins. If they have the same (if four-of-a-kind is on the board), then the player with the highest fifth card wins, since a poker hand is always composed of five cards.

#4 Full House

A full house is a combination of a three-of-a-kind and a pair. If two players have a full house, then the one with the highest three-of-a-kind wins. If they have the same one, then the pair counts.

#5 Flush

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Five cards of the same suit make a flush. If two players have a flush, then the one with the highest cards wins.

#6 Straight

Five consecutive cards are called a straight. If two players have a straight, the one with the highest cards wins.

#7 Three-of-a-kind

A three-of-a-kind is composed of three cards of the same rank. If two players have the same three-of-a-kind, then the other cards, or both cards, determine the winner, since a poker hand is a always composed of five cards.

#8 Two-pair

Two-pair hands are, of course, composed of two pairs. If two players have two-pair, the rank of the higher pair determines the winner. If they have the same higher pair, then the lower one counts. If that is also the same, then the fifth card counts.

#9 Pair

A pair is composed of two cards of the same rank. Since a poker hand is always composed of five cards, the other three cards are so-called “kickers”. In case two players have the same pair, then the one with the highest kicker wins.

#10 High card

If you don’t even have a pair, then you look at the strength of your cards. If there are two players at showdown who don’t have a pair or better, then the one with the highest cards wins.

Any of the PalaPoker.com games use the standard rank of hands to determine the high hand.

However, at PalaPoker.com we also play “split pot” games, like Omaha Hi-Lo8 and Stud Hi-Lo8, in which the highest hand splits the pot with a qualifying (“8 or better”) low hand; therefore, we must also be familiar with:

Low Poker Hands List:

This method of ranking low hands is used in traditional Hi/Lo games, like Omaha Hi/Lo and Stud Hi/Lo, as well as in Razz, the ‘low only’ Stud game.

Note that suits are irrelevant for Ace to Five low. A flush or straight does not ‘break’ an Ace to Five low poker hand. Aces are always a ‘low’ card when considering a low hand.

Please also note that the value of a five-card low hand starts with the top card, and goes down from there.

#1 Five Low, or “Wheel“: The Five, Four, Three, Deuce and Ace.

In the event of a tie: All Five-high hands split the pot.

#2 Six Low: Any five unpaired cards with the highest card being a Six.

In the event of a tie: The lower second-highest ranking card wins the pot. Thus 6,4,3,2,A defeats 6,5,4,2,A. If necessary, the third-highest, fourth-highest and fifth-highest cards in the hand can be used to break the tie.

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#3 Seven Low: Any five unpaired cards with the highest card being a Seven.

In the event of a tie: The lower second-highest ranking card wins the pot. If necessary, the third- highest, fourth-highest and fifth-highest cards in the hand can be used to break the tie.

#4 Eight Low: Any five unpaired cards with the highest card being an Eight.

In the event of a tie: The lower second-highest ranking card wins the pot. If necessary, the third-highest, fourth-highest and fifth-highest cards in the hand can be used to break the tie. An Eight Low is the weakest hand that qualifies for low in Omaha Hi/Lo and Stud Hi/Lo.

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Highest Suit Poker Order Of Poker

On the Ordering of Playing Card Suits

(or, why “CHaSeD” is bad for you)

Each individual playing card is identified by the unique combination of a value and a suit. The values are numeric in nature (if we assign 11, 12, and 13 to the Jack, Queen, and King, respectively); as such, we can order them easily, exploit their odd-even nature, use them in mathematical operations, etc. The methods underlying many effects are based on this numeric property of the values.

It’s equally useful to assign such characteristics to the suits. Many people order the suits simply by memorizing an arbitrary sequence (usually one that alternates the colours): thus we have such mnemonics as CHaSeD, SHoCkeD, DuCHeSs, CoDfiSH, and HiS DeCk.

The drawback of this approach is that it simply yields an order, and fails to assign useful numeric meanings to the individual suits. Should we need the third value in a numerical sequence, we instantly know that it is a three, but when we try to do this with suits, we introduce extraneous thinking (“Let’s see, I’m using the CHaSeD order, so the third one is a Club … Heart … Spade!”). Similarly, if we wish to make use of a suit’s value for some computational purpose, we are left with questions like “What is the value of a Heart?”

An obvious analogy here is the Latin alphabet. While most people know the sequence (ABCDEFG …), and thus can quickly determine which character follows “M”, few know the numerical values of the letters (their positions), and can instantly name the 17th letter, or know at which position “R” falls.

All of this is far from ideal. For playing cards, though, the problem is easily resolved, by exploiting the natural numerical order suggested by the standard French suits, indicated by the points or lobes in their shapes, as depicted here:

This particular ordering (which corresponds to the SHoCkeD mnemonic, though that’s a less useful way to recall it) has additional memorable significance. Spades are widely considered the #1 suit (hence the decorative Ace of Spades). The major suits (cf., Contract Bridge) are together, and precede the minor suits. The even suits are red, and the odd suits are black: black being the “odd” colour makes sense, as black isn’t really a colour (it’s the absence of colour). Further, the black symbols themselves are somewhat odd, enjoying limited recognition by non-card-players; the Heart and Diamond, on the other hand, are basic, universally recognized shapes.

Consequently, this is my personal choice — and strong recommendation — for the most effective playing card suit order. The concept dates back at least to the J. Russell Duck (aka “Rusduck”) publication of “Spades Hearts Clubs Diamonds” in Phoenix magazine (Issue #255, May 1952), pg. 1020. Once the most prevalent ordering used by European magicians, it has of late been supplanted by the much inferior CHaSeD sequence (a victory of imitation over imagination, with a consequent loss of functionality). But once you adopt and internalize it, you will often be reminded of its advantages, and immediately and forever know that the third suit is a Club.

… Doug Dyment