The poker deck consists of 52 cards that are ordered by poker card rank in the following order: A, K, Q, J, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2. The same cards of different suits have the same poker card rank.
For example - the king of spades and the king of hearts both have the same value.
Only in very rare occasions (for example when dealing for the button) the suits are ranked in poker. In this case the ranking is: 1. Suits are otherwise generally not ranked in poker. A Flush in spades is as good as a flush in any other suit, only the ranks of the cards matter. In standard poker there is no ranking of suits for the purpose of comparing hands. If two hands are identical apart from the suits of the cards then they count as equal. In standard poker, if there are two highest equal hands in a showdown, the pot is split between them.
A poker hand consists of five cards. Any poker hand ranking in a higher category beats any hand in a lower hand ranking category. For example, any flush wins any two pairs. Between hands in the same poker hand ranking the rank of the individual cards decides which is better. For example, if both players have three of a kind, one of them Q's and the other J's, the Q's three of a kind would win.
Following is the ranking of poker hands ordered from highest(best) hand to lowest(worst) hand. Other instructions on online poker is available at poker4real.com
When you get a hand of poker, first consider what is the probability that someone else has a better hand than yours and also think about how highly ranked your hand is. If you want to learn the origin of poker ranking hands visit our page