Top Poker Hands

Anyone can play poker as long as he or she knows the basics. To make the game simpler, there are things you should keep in mind while you play the game such the ten poker hands, two card-hands, and other poker details. The ten poker hands are royal flush, straight flush, four of a kind, full house, flush, straight, three of a kind, two pair, one pair, and high card. The two-card hands are what you are dealt and what you have to base your bets on. While it is better to play the best hands, you may also play less favorable hands to win large or small pots. Most, if not all, professional players also play the game with this maximum bet. Your position in the table also have to be taken into consideration when you play, as some positions are favorable for certain hands. Other poker details to know about are dealer, players, poker prize, poker feed script, your stance, odds, and player tells.

To better understand how poker hands are ranked, let us first find out what a hand is and what the values of individual cards are. A hand is a combination of five cards generated when playing poker. The card with the highest value is the ace. However, the value of the hand will not depend only depend on the card (even if it's an ace) but also the combination you make: 1 pair, 2 pair, 3 of a kind, straight, flush, full house, 4 of a kind, straight flush, and royal flush. The rank of poker hands depends on the probability. Because the royal flush is deemed rarest, it is the highest hand in value. The royal flush has the royal family (king, queen, jack) plus the ace and ten, all coming from the same suit. The straight flush comes next to poker hands with one of the highest values. It is a hand consisting of five cards that are arranged in sequence, also coming from the same suit. More probable combinations such as pairs are placed lower in the rank of poker hands.

In playing poker, for the newbies, a very frustrating part is discerning if this hand is stronger than this or that. Here is the ranking of the poker hands, from highest to lowest. # Royal flush- 10 through ace, all of a similar suit, whatever suit it is would not matter. # Straight flush- any 5 cards of similar suit in consecutive sequence. # Four of a Kind- example- four Qs. # Full House- among all ranking hands for poker, this is a member of the elite "class", yet it would come up more frequently than a newbie might think or presume. This is any 3 cards of equal value, plus any kind of pair. # Flush- any set of non-consecutive whose suit is similar. # Straight- 5 consecutive of differing suits. # Three of a Kind- any 3 cards of equal worth. # Two pair- two cards of equal denomination, if two competitors have tied pairs (both), high card would be the tie-breaker. # Pair- 2 cards of equal value, enough said. # High card- assuming no kind of hand is formed, the biggest card in the set would claim the win.

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There are (for me) basically two kinds of poker pros- the celebrity-pros, and the "private" kind of pro. The celebrity-pros are those known all over the world by the mere mention of the name, like- Moneymaker, Mike the Mouth (although this guy could be called notorious as well), and Annie Duke. Well, Jennifer Tilly must belong to an altogether different category, for she is a Hollywood celeb literally. Now, we go to the second kind, these are those whom you need to "research on", if you wish to know more about him/her, and Tamas Gabor Kovacs is one of them. (Of course, everything could change, if he joins WSOP 2008 and lands in the Finals, he would graduate from this class to the celeb-class). Let me give you some things about Tamas Gabor Kovacs, he is also called "Mactom", forty years old, and has two kids. His passion is on NL Holdem, favorite movies (just two among others) are Saving Private Ryan (mine too) and Sunshine (not mine). His fave place is Kauai and Tom Hanks is his favorite celeb. He made the poker elite notice him when he landed second place at the Austrian Classics of 2007, he won $52,910 in that event. (I have a friend who boasts that he knows Tamas Gabor Kovacs personally, but nobody believes him. He used to boast that he taught Evelyn Ng how to play the game in Russia. When we pointed out that this poker lady is not Russian, and probably has never been to Russia, he simply said that he was referring to another Evelyn Ng, one that we've never heard of).

The question who is the strongest/best player poker in the world (or just best player poker world) would always bring forth heated debates all around. I will give you what 3 of my friends say about the matter. The best player poker world according to my friend #1 (this friend has 40 years of casino experience, actually, he almost finished a book for publication): Daniel Negreanu- awarded with "Card Player magazine's Player of the Year" for 2004. In one year ONLY, he amassed more than four million dollars in tourney winnings. The best player poker world according to my friend #2 (he is a professional poker tutor, the low-key type)- Phil Hellmuth, hell, (ehr, no pun intended)- NEED I SAY MORE, NEED I INTRODUCE THIS LEGEND? The best player poker world according to my friend #3: (a high-roller, fact is, I think he is on first-name basis with half of Hollywood's celebs)- Marcel Luske. Well, Luske is European, and the fact that this high-roller is also European may dilute the objectivity of his assertion. Still, Marcel Luske is AMONG the best in the world. Way back in 2005, he was all over the map of the globe, engaging in so many competitions- oh, you know what he is called? The 'flying Dutchman', which for me is, kind of scary- sounds like a ghost ship or something.