Poker hands

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Basics

pot - the sum of money in single hand / game
hands: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_poker_hands

cards belong to same category of one of 4 pips (club, spade, heart, diamond) called - suit (french)
jokers belong to no suit

Suits are not ranked. So hands differ by suits alone are of equal rank

there are 9 hands in standard 52-card deck (except under ace-to-five rules)

wild card / bug - used to represent any other playing cards (like joker)

The 9 Hands

1. Five of a kind

[🂡 🃑 🂱 🃁 🂿] - 5 same ranked cards with different suite (ace + bug)
can be of queen, which ranks higher than (six)

2. Straight flush

Contains 5 cards of sequential rank, all of same suit.
#5. Flush + #6. Straight

if starts with ace [🂡 🂮 🂭 🂫 🂪] it’s royal-straight-flush
(ace-high-straight flush)
If you append ace to the end of [5 4 3 2 A] it’s low & steel wheel

3. Four of a kind / quad

[🃙 🃉 🂹 🂩 🂢] 4 same ranked cards with different suite (ace + kicker (2 of spade))
(four of a kind, nines)

kicker is a side card, that itself does not take part in determining the rank. However, having 9 ranks higer than 3, despite being the kicker.

4. Full House / full boat / tight / boat

3 cards of same rank, 2 cards of another rank
(a “full house, threes over six”, “threes full of sixes”, “threes full”)

ranked first by it’s triplet, then by it’s pair

5. Flush

5 cards of same suite of not sequentially ranked
[K 10 8 4 2] (king-high flush, king-ten-high flush)

ranked first by highest-ranked card, then second highest …

6. Straight

Contains 5 cards of sequential rank, all of different suit

• broadway straight [A K Q J 10]
• baby straight / bicycle / wheel [5 4 3 2 A]

7. Three of a kind

3 same ranked cards with different suite (ace + 2 kickers)
[2 2 2 K 6] (trip twos)

8. Two pair

Two card of one rank, two card of another rank, one card of third rank (kicker)

9. One pair

Two card of one rank, three other ranks
[4 4 K 10 5] (one pair, fours)

10. High card

no pair. simply nothing. #5. Flush with different suite.
[K J 8 7 4] (high card, king. king-jack high)

Shuffles

• Hindu Shuffle
• Rifle Shuffle