LOVEJILI Poker Hand Rankings Chart: All 10 Hands, Odds and Tie-Breaks

A poker hand rankings chart is a ladder of ten hands, and the order is no accident: the rarer a hand is in a straight five-card deal, the higher it sits. Pagat, the card-game rules reference, says exactly that, and Wizard of Odds counts each hand among the 2,598,960 possible five-card hands. This page lists the ten in order, with the count and the share of all hands, then explains how two hands of the same rank are split. The online poker pillar explains where these hands are played in the lobby.

The Poker Hand Rankings Chart

Counts are Wizard of Odds’ figures for five cards dealt from a 52-card deck with no wild cards; the shares are those counts divided by 2,598,960.

1. Royal Flush Meaning

A royal flush is the ace, king, queen, jack and ten of one suit. Only 4 exist, one per suit, so it turns up in 0.000154% of five-card deals. It is simply the highest straight flush.

2. Straight Flush

Five cards in sequence, all the same suit, such as 9-8-7-6-5 of hearts. Wizard of Odds counts 36 below the royal, 0.00139% of hands. Pagat notes the ace may play low, so 5-4-3-2-A of one suit counts, but an ace cannot sit in the middle of a sequence.

3. Four of a Kind

All four cards of one rank plus any fifth card. There are 624, or 0.0240% of hands. Between two, the higher four wins.

4. Full House Meaning

Three cards of one rank and two of another, such as K-K-K-4-4. There are 3,744, or 0.144%. Between two full houses, the higher three of a kind wins, so 9-9-9-2-2 beats 8-8-8-A-A.

5. Flush Poker Hands

Pagat defines a flush as “five cards of the same suit”, not in sequence. There are 5,108, or 0.197% of hands. Two flushes are compared by their highest card, then the next, and so on down.

6. Straight

Five cards in sequence with mixed suits. Pagat allows the ace high (A-K-Q-J-10) or low (5-4-3-2-A), but not both at once. There are 10,200, or 0.392%.

7. Three of a Kind

Three cards of one rank plus two unmatched cards. There are 54,912, or 2.11%. The higher three wins.

8. Two Pair

Two different pairs and a fifth card. There are 123,552, or 4.75%. Compare the higher pair first, then the lower pair, then the fifth card.

9. One Pair

Two cards of one rank. At 1,098,240 hands, 42.26%, it is the most common made hand. The higher pair wins; equal pairs go to the higher remaining cards.

10. High Card

No pair, no sequence, no single suit: 1,302,540 hands, just over half of all deals at 50.12%. The highest card decides, then the next.

Splitting Two Hands of the Same Rank

Kicker poker: the card that breaks a tie

A kicker is an unmatched card that decides between two hands of the same rank. With a pair of kings each, A-K-K-9-4 beats Q-K-K-9-4 because the ace kicker outranks the queen.

1. Compare the cards that make the hand first: the four in four of a kind, the three in a full house, the pairs in two pair.
2. If those tie, compare the remaining cards, called kickers, from highest down.
3. If every card ties, the hands are equal and the pot is split.
4. Suits never break a tie in standard poker. Pusoy dos is different: the pusoy card game page shows how its suit order decides ties.

Chips shown at a table carry the values that table sets; the poker chip values page explains why. JILI’s card games, including Tongits Go, are listed on the JILI studio page.