Poker Starting Hands Ranking

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Poker Starting Hands Ranked
Poker Starting Hands By Position
Poker Starting Hands Ranking
Texas Holdem Poker Hand Rankings

The hands are ranked from #1 to #169, where #1 is the best. This ranking is applicable when the poker table is full ring (9-10 people). The ranking is based on computer calculation results with all the players staying to the river card. It is not applicable to any real play.

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 hand rankings for Short Deck are slightly different. Find out more about the short deck poker hand rankings on the dedicated page.
Having a hand chart is not realistic because there are 16,432 starting hands in PLO. This is assuming the suits don’t matter since suits have no relative value. If we included the suits, there are 270,725 combinations of preflop holdings.

Omaha hi poker starting hand ranks. The 2nd Part

See beginning in Part I

To our opinion the following hands are close in their value. And we’re leaving it for you to arrange these starting hands according to their value for Omaha hi poker:
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The most important thing here is how nice these cards are combined. Naturally the hand: is more valuable than , but the second hand is also very good, though the cards here are smaller than those of the first one. It is possible to accept the flop with any hand if the cards in it follow each other and are double suited if the price is not too high.

A valuable hand is one in which two aces match with another two cards. The best match is when cards are suited. Double-suited hand with two aces is a wonderful hand. Let’s compare such two hands: and .

The first starting hand in order to stay in the game Omaha hi poker has to draw an ace, and the second one has two drawing flushes and good chances for a drawing straight that adds value to the aces. Of course if you play one-on-one and you’ve got two “rotten” aces in your hand, your chances are good. But one cannot say a good poker about a game in which one raises on a card requiring a three-of-a-kind to win the pot.

In a limit Omaha it is impossible to get two aces through and it is hard to do the same in a pot-limit game. Only in a non-limit game two aces form a good hand without support but Omaha games are not limited very rare.

Quite often two aces may be discovered in a player’s hand when he makes high bets in preflop. Especially in a pot-limit game when a serious player reraises to maximum. In this case an opponent will support with his money any hand better than two aces or a hand having high chances to beat them. But if a hand with two aces will draw with the other two cards something more, a big surprise awaits for your opponent. It’d be nice to get a three and in addition to it a straight.

Poker Starting Hands Ranked

Obviously it is easier to get a high card on the flop if your sided cards are paired and form a useful combination like J-10, rather than in the case when they are not connected. The presence of suited cards is also a valuable surprise. The situation in which one gets a flush draw in addition to two aces can be used as bait for an opponent and make him play all his money in confrontation. In Omaha hi poker one should thoroughly evaluate in a starting hand the two support cards for two aces (or any other high pair), because Omaha is definitely a four-card poker game.

For continuation see Part III

Once you have studied Omaha Hi-Lo Poker Rules, the next step is to learn Omaha hi-lo hand rankings. In Omaha hi-lo, the pot is divided evenly between the high hand and the low hand.

The high hand ranking is similar to Texas Holdem and Omaha. Keep in mind that the ranking reflects how rare it is to form a hand. Let’s take a look at all the high hand rankings.

High Hand Rankings (ordered by increasing value)

Hand	Example	Explanation
10. High card	Unrelated and unpaired cards
9. One pair	Two cards of the same rank
8. Two pair	Two different pairs
7. Three of a kind (or set)	Three cards of the same rank
6. Straight	Five consecutive cards
5. Flush	All cards of the same suit
4. Full house	Three of a kind with a pair
3. Four of a kind (or quads)	Four cards of the same rank
2. Straight flush	Five consecutive cards, all of the same suit
1. Royal flush	Ace-High Straight Flush

Low and the Eight or Better Qualifier

Not all hands qualify for the low. Furthermore, if no player makes a low hand, the high wins the entire pot. A valid low hand consists of five different cards, so no pair, ranked eight or lower, with the ace counting as the lowest card. Straights and flushes are ignored, so the following hands are valid low hands.

Hands that contain any pair or any card nine to king do not qualify for the low. So the following hands do not count as low.

Low Hand Rankings

In a low hand, the lower the card denominations are, the stronger the hand is. Low hands are evaluated, starting from the highest rank card (remember, the ace counts as the lowest), in a top-down approach. The player with the lowest card from the top wins. If the cards are even, the second card from the top is taken into account, and so on.

For example, consider that Player A has 8♥5♠4♣3♥2♥, and Player B has 8♥6♠4♣2♥A♣. To determine who has the best low, we first compare the first cards starting from the top. As they both have an eight, the second card from the top is examined. Player A has the smallest, the five, so he wins. Let’s take a look at some examples.

Poker Starting Hands By Position

Low Hand Examples (ordered by increasing value)