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Poker Cheat Sheet
I don’t know if there is a real name for it, but ‘Cheat Sheet’ is what me and buddies call the little piece of paper that most of us keep next to us in a game for the purpose of surreptitiously having a sneak in order to determine our hands, because remembering the sequence of poker hands still alludes me, even after 3 years of playing. Knowing what is what in your hand is probably the most important part of poker, so here it is, the poker novice’s (or not-so-novice’s) best friend; print it out, stick it up, do what ever you will with it.
Your poker hand is the best of the following that you can make up with 5 cards that you have available to you:
High Card: When your cards don’t make up any of the other combinations you are left with a High Card: The highest card in your hand.
One Pair: 2 of the same number or picture. When more than one player has a pair of the same, the winner is determined by who has the next highest card.
Two Pair: 2 x pair. Again when more than one player has the same two pairs it is the remaining card in the hand that decides the winner.
Three of a kind: 3 of the same number and 2 cards that are not related. When more than one player has a 3 of a kind, the hand with the highest value of the 3 cards wins.
Straight: five cards in sequence but not of the same suit. The highest run wins, e.g. 3,4,5,6,7, looses to 5,6,7,8,9.
Flush: All the same suit but not in sequence, e.g. all clubs. Should two players have a flush, the highest card in the hand determines the winner; if this is the same for both, the next highest card is looked to, and so on.
Full House: one pair plus three of a kind. If two players have full houses the highest 3 of a kind determines the winner. Should both have the same 3 of a kind, as is possible in a wilds game, the one with the highest pair wins.
Straight Flush: All the same suit, all in sequence. The highest card of the sequence determines the winner.
Royal Flush: Not really a hand as it is simply the highest straight flush possible; 10, J, Q, K, A all of the same suit.
Five of a Kind: Many tables do not accept five of a kind, but for those that do; this is 5 cards of the same value, with a wild card as the 5th.
Video Poker Rules to Make You a Champ
There are very few people that do not know how to play poker. In fact, it is one of the most popular games in the casino. Poker is a card game and one that is played at a table or on a machine. Video Poker Rules are much the same as poker, only it is being played on a machine.
How to Play Video Poker
Video poker is played by the player manipulating buttons on the machine. The game is played with 52 cards, and the dealer is dealt his hand. The player then decides which cards he / she would like to keep, and which they would like to throw. For the cards that the player would like to keep, they simply press the hold button. When the player clicks on the draw button the cards that are not held in the hand are thrown out, and the player draws new cards.
The object of poker to get a winning hand. Poker has many winning combinations, and you must hold a combination than the machine in order to win the hand. The first thing when you will do when you play video poker is to place your bet. You will then have five cards dealt to you and from there you size up your combinations and your winning strategy. You are allowed one draw, and after that draw, the machine will show its hand, and you have won or lost your hand.
Typically, video poker works on a five coin bet system.
In poker, an Ace is the highest card you can hold. It is then followed by the king, queen and jack. You then have your number cards which are their numbered value.
Hand Ranks
The lowest hand in poker is termed a pair and is a pair of cards whose value is the same.
Two pair is next and is two sets of two cards with the same value.
Three of a kind is next and is three cards that hold the same value.
A Straight is next and is a hand that is made up of five cards of consecutive value, but, are not the same suit.
Five cards of the same suit but are not of consecutive values are called a Flush. For instance, a two of clubs, a ten of clubs, a King of clubs, a three of clubs and an eight of clubs.
Three cards of the same kind and a pair of the same kind make a Full House. For instance, three of the cards could be threes and the other two cards, twos.
The next highest hand in poker is four cards whose value is the same.
Five consecutive cards whose suit is the same, but does not contain an ace in the hand is called a Straight.
The highest hand in poker is composed of the five highest cards in the deck, which consist of the ten, Jack, Queen King, and Ace, that are of the same suit and called a Royal Flush.