Poker Hierarchy Of Suits
Introduction. Making a straight flush gives you one of the strongest hands on the poker hand rankings chart. Straight flushes stand as the second-highest ranking hand in poker, only losing to royal flushes. Besides the royal flush, all other hands lose to a straight flush. This hand consists of five consecutive cards, all of the same suit. There are 52 cards in the pack, and the ranking of the individual cards, from high to low, is ace, king, queen, jack, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2.There is no ranking between the suits - so for example the king of hearts and the king of spades are equal.. A poker hand consists of five cards. The categories of hand, from highest to lowest, are listed in the chart below. For example, AT96532 would rank this hand as an ace high. Against a hand of KJ87643, the ace-high hand would be the winning hand. If the king-high hand were up against KQT8542, the queen in this hand.
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