In the event that two people have the same hand ranking (e.g. This is because all poker hands that use this system are made up of the best five cards.
You’ll notice that all hand strengths have five cards in their example, even if the hand itself doesn’t need five cards. For reference, here is a link to our full poker hands ranking list.
In this system, the Royal Flush is the strongest possible hand, and a high card is the weakest possible hand. Every high-hand game (a game where you try to make the best possible hand) uses this ranking system, except for Short Deck, and it will be the one you’re most familiar with if you’ve come across poker before. The most common shared rule that you’ll see amongst poker variants is the ranking of hands.
