Hand ranking instructions at HoldemPoker.com

This is the ranking of hands. The player making the highest ranked five card hand out of the seven cards (the five community card plus his own two hole cards) wins the pot. It doesn’t matter if he uses four of the community cards on the board and one hole card or both hole cards and three from the board. Sometimes even the five communal cards may rank as the best hand. Then all the players share the pot since they all have that hand!

A hand always consists of five cards. In the case of two players holding a pair of aces for example the high card kicker will decide the winner.

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