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Figure 2-2 Standard deck of 52 playing cards. Graphics licensed under LGPL [1].
A quick rundown of the basic rules: The goal of nearly every kind of poker is to obtain a hand of five cards.
The makeup of these five cards determines your strength. If the particular poker game allows a player to have
more than five cards, the player then will typically have to select the best five-card poker hand out of those
cards. In the event of a tie — say, two players both have flushes — then the player with the highest card in the
flush wins. If that is also tied, then the next card, and so forth. Similarly, if players both have a pair, then the
higher pair wins (thus, a pair of Kings beats Queens, and a pair of Aces beats Kings). If both players have the
same pair, then the one with the next highest card in his hand wins, and then the next highest (in the case of a
tie), and so forth. The listing of five-card poker hands is shown in Table 2-1 .
Table 2-1 Ranking of Poker Hands