Poker Hands Ranking, Best Poker Hand

This guide of poker hands will make you aware of which hands will beat the others. The best poker hand is a Royal Flush, which cannot be beaten right down to a hand with nothing available apart from a high card.

Poker Hands Ranking - From Royal Flush to High Card
	1. Royal Flush This is the best hand possible in poker and consists of Ace, King, Queen, Jack and 10 of the same suit.
	2. Straight Flush This hand consists of a straight run of cards, all of the same suit. e.g 2,3,4,5,6 of spades
	3. Four of a Kind Four cards held in the same hand all of the same number or picture card, e.g four 9's, one of each suit.
	4. Full House This hand consists of three cards of one number or picture and two cards of another number or picture. e.g three 4's and two 7's.
	5. Flush Five cards all of one suit but not a running sequence. e.g five spades, 2,4,6,9 and Ace.
	6. Straight A five card running sequence of cards of different suits. e.g 5 spades, 6 hearts, 7 diamonds, 8 clubs and 9 diamonds.
	7. Three of a Kind This hand consists of three cards of the same number or picture and two other cards. e.g three 6's.
	8. Two Pair A two pair hand is just as it sounds, a hand containing two separate pairs and one other card. e.g a pair of 4's and a pair of 9's
	9. One Pair One pair is almost the worst hand you could hold, consisting of two cards of the same number or picture and three other cards. e.g a pair of 9's.
	10. High Card This hand will rarely be played as it of little value. It consists of no sequence of cards, the hand with the highest card wins, from an Ace to a 2.