Texas Holdem Poker Hands

Knowing your poker hands is the key to playing a great game of Texas Holdem Poker. The order of poker hands in Texas Holdem is the same as in other standard variations of poker. Texas Holdem is one of the most popular variations of poker in live play and online casinos. It's exciting to learn about poker hands and play Texas Holdem, whether you go online to play the computer or other players, hold a home game, or enter live tournaments like the World Series of Poker. Once you learn about poker hands, you can play Texas Holdem like the pros.

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In Texas Holdem, there are ten different poker hands. In ranking order from highest to lowest, the poker hands are: Royal Flush, Straight Flush, Four of a Kind, Full House, Flush, Straight, Three of a Kind, Two Pair, One Pair, and High Card. A Straight Flush poker hand is five sequential cards of the same suit, the highest possible straight flush being the Royal Flush, which is 10 through A. Every poker player wants to draw a Royal Flush poker hand! The -of-a-kind and Pair hands are fairly straightforward: Four of a Kind and Three of a Kind are four or three cards of the same value; while Two Pair and One Pair are respectively two sets of same-value cards and one set of same-value cards. A Flush consists of five cards in the same suit, any order; and a Straight is five cards in sequential order; any suit. The Full House is the rogue of poker hands, consisting of three same-value cards plus two same-value cards. The lowest possible Texas Holdem poker hand is the High Card hand (where nothing matches anything). High Card hands do not usually receive payouts in live or online casino play.

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It's important to understand Texas Holdem poker hands in conjunction with other poker strategies. Texas Holdem can be played using a standard 52-card deck with anywhere from 2 to 11 players, because each player is only dealt two individual cards. The remaining cards used for the game are shared, or community, cards; placed face-up in the center of the table in increments of 3-1-1 to allow a total of four betting rounds. Texas Holdem poker hands are constructed using any combination of the two player cards (called the pocket pair) and the five shared cards. The object of Texas Holdem is to make the highest poker hand possible, even if you only use one from your pocket pair and four of the center cards.

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by Bones McCoy at offshorepokerroom.com on February 10, 2006


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