Ranking Rank-card(s) Kicker-card(s) Tie Breakers; ROYAL FLUSH: Royal Flush Cards: NA: An ace-high Straight flush is called Royal flush. A Royal Flush is the highest hand in poker. An ace-high straight, such as A ♣ K ♣ Q ♦ J ♠ 10 ♠, is called a Broadway straight, while a five-high straight, such as 5 ♠ 4 ♦ 3 ♦ 2 ♠ A ♥, is called a baby straight, bicycle or wheel and is the best possible hand in ace-to-five low games (where it is a high card hand, not a straight).

In nearly all “made hands” in poker, Aces are going to be considered as a high card value. The following chart illustrates this: Therefore, as you can see, in all cases other than low straights, Aces are going to be considered high. The difference from normal poker is that Aces are always high, so that A-2-3-4-5 is not a straight, but ranks between K-Q-J-10-8 and A-6-4-3-2. The best hand in this form is 7-5-4-3-2 in mixed suits, hence the name 'deuce to seven'. Ace-high definition, (of a poker hand) having an ace as the highest card.

All the suits in poker are of equal value. It makes no difference whether someone has the ace of clubs or the ace of diamonds. If remaining players have exactly the same hand at showdown, only in different suits, the pot is split.

Hand Ranking

The value of poker hands is determined by how rare or common it is to be dealt them, with the most common hands valued lower than the rarer hands. The complete list of poker hands is as follows, in increasing order of scarcity:

1. High card
2. One pair
3. Two pair
4. Three of a kind (sometimes called “trips” or “a set”)
5. Straight
6. Flush
7. Full house
8. Four of a kind (sometimes called “quads”)
9. Straight flush

High Card

If you have no pair, three of a kind, straight, flush, full house, etc., then the highest card in your hand is considered to be decisive. The hand above, in which the best card is a king and there is no other combination of poker hand, is known as “king high”.

Ace high beats king high. King high beats queen high, and so on.

If the high cards in two players’ hands is the same, the second-highest card becomes decisive. If these cards are also the same, the third-highest card plays and so on. These cards are known as the kicker.

High card ace, king kicker:

Player 1 has A♠K♣
Player 2 has A♦Q♦
The board is 9♠6♥4♥3♠2♣

Poker Ace High Straight

Ace High Poker Club Chips

Both players have an ace, but Player 1 wins, because he has a king as his second highest card (kicker). His opponent only has a queen.