High Card is the worst possible hand on the poker hand rankings list. It consists of no pair or any other hand type – just a high card.
- Illustrated Poker Hands Chart. Below is a complete chart of Poker hands ranked highest to lowest.
- Poker hands ranked from lowest to highest in value: www.firsttimepokerplayer.com. If no player has any of the hands listed below, than the player holding the highest card wins. One pair: Two cards that match form a pair. The player who holds the pair of.
- Poker hands ranked from lowest to highest in value: www.firsttimepokerplayer.com. If no player has any of the hands listed below, than the player holding the highest card wins. One pair: Two cards that match form a pair. The player who holds the pair of cards with the highest value wins. If two players hold the same pair than the player holding the highest unpaired card with it.
High card by suit is used to break ties between poker hands as a regional variance, but more commonly is used in the following situations, as well as various others, based upon the circumstances of the particular game: Randomly selecting a player or players. This page is about poker hands and covers their ranking from highest to lowest. A royal flush as pictured is a poker hand with ace, king, queen, jack and ten of the same suit. Poker hands from highest to lowest 1. Royal flush A, K, Q, J, 10, all the same suit. Straight flush Five cards in a sequence, all in the same suit. Four of a kind All four cards of the same. Official Poker Hand Rankings Know your poker hand order. A poker hand consists of five cards, which fall into several categories. Below is the complete list of poker hands, from highest to lowest. Please note that Short Deck hand rankings are slightly different, and can be found here.
The words “High Card” should have you thinking straight away about a hand with the highest card. However, this is the lowest possible hand in Texas Hold’em.
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Starting Hands like K♣10♠ on a board 8♥7♥4♦J♣2♣ are referred to as “King High” rather than no pair.
Even though you don’t have a pair, it is still important to rank these hands for the system to work. In effect, a king-high hand would beat a queen-high hand. Queen-high beats jack-high and so forth.
As is the case in all Hold’em games, you can “play the board”. Say the board comes down A♣6♦5♥10♠7♥ and you hold 3♠2♠. Your hand would be called Ace-High using all the cards on the board.
When rating one High Card hand against the next, it’s the hand rank or denomination that’s important. Therefore, the best High Card hand is Ace-High, the second King-High, the third Queen-High and so on.
Kickers are a distinguishing factor when players have the same high card.
We’ll discuss this in the next section.
How Does a High Card Hand Rank?
In a 52-card deck, there are 1,302,540 possible High Card hand combinations and 1,277 distinct ranks of High Card hands. Each High Card is ranked first by its highest card, secondly by its highest-ranked kicker and so forth.
Here are a few more examples of High Card hands:
Poker Chips Highest To Lowest
A♠K♣ Q♥10♦8♠
K♠Q♦J♣9♥6♥
A♠K♦Q♣J♥16♥
A♠K♣ Q♥10♦9♠
Marine Ranks Lowest To Highest
K♦Q♣10♥9♣5♥
Can you tell which High Card hand ranks the best?
Keep in mind that the suits are irrelevant and that the kickers should be used to rank hands with the High Card.
How Does a High Card Hand Match Up?
High Card is the ninth best possible hand in the poker hand ranking system – putting it in last place. One pair ranks directly above it, with the best One Pair being Aces.
There are no hands that rank below High Card. Therefore, it is the worst hand according to the standard poker hand ranking system. It rarely wins at showdown unless someone’s making a superb bluff.
High Card Poker Probabilities
Now, we’ll look at the pre-flop, flop, turn and river probabilities of making a High Card hand in both Hold’em and Pot Limit Omaha.
Hold'em Probabilities | ||
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Pre-flop: | 50.12% | (based on 5 cards randomly drawn from a full 52-card deck) |
Flop: | 67.70% | (based on non-paired unsuited hole cards) |
Turn: | 87.23% | (based on non-paired unsuited hole cards) |
River: | 86.96% | (based on non-paired unsuited hole cards) |
Pot Limit Omaha Probabilities | ||
Pre-flop: | 50.12% | (based on 5 cards randomly drawn from a full 52-card deck) |
Flop: | 31.08% | (based on non-paired unsuited hole cards) |
Turn: | 73.33% | (based on non-paired unsuited hole cards) |
River: | 72.73% | (based on non-paired unsuited hole cards) |
Visit our high card odds article for more information.
Now that you’ve got High Card down pat, it’s time to hit the tables! Good luck!
In Texas Hold’em Poker, a hand is made up of the best 5-card combination formed from two pocket cards, and 5 community table cards. The winning poker hand is the one with the highest combination. In case players have the same winning combination, the winner is the one who has the next highest card that isn’t involved in the winning poker hand (also called the kicker). These are the Poker hands, ordered from highest to lowest:
Royal Flush
It's the highest hand that consists of Ten, Jack,
Queen, King and Ace, all of the same suit.
Queen, King and Ace, all of the same suit.
Straight Flush
It's the highest hand that consists of any other straight of the same suit that isn’t a Royal Flush.
Four of a Kind
Four cards of the same rank, one of each suit.
Full House
Three cards of one rank and two cards of another rank.
Straight
Five cards in sequence of any suit.
Three of a Kind
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Three cards of the same rank and two unmatched cards.
Two Pair
Two sets of two cards of the same rank and any fifth card.
One Pair
Any hand of two cards of the same rank and three unmatched cards.
High Card (No Pair)
No two cards have the same rank, the five cards are not in sequence, and the five cards are not all the same suit.
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