The usual hierarchy of poker hands from highest to lowest runs as follows (standard poker hands are in
italics): •
Flush Five: Five cards of the same rank and suit. •
Royal Flush: The highest straight flush, A-K-Q-J-10 suited. •
Skeet flush: The same cards as a skeet (see below) but all in the same suit. •
Flush House: A Full House (see below) where all the cards are of the same suit. •
Five of a kind •
Straight flush: When
wild cards are used, a wild card becomes whichever card is necessary to complete the straight flush, or the higher of the two cards that can complete an open-ended straight flush. For example, in the hand
10♠ 9♠ (Wild) 7♠ 6♠, it becomes the
8♠, and in the hand
(Wild) Q♦ J♦ 10♦ 9♦, it plays as the
K♦ (even though the
8♦ would also make a straight flush). •
Straight Flush House: A Straight (see below) containing cards of only two suits, where three cards in order are one suit and the next two in order are the other. •
Three of a kind •
Little bobtail: A three-card straight flush (three cards of the same suit in consecutive order). •
Flash: One card of each suit plus a joker. •
Blaze: Also called
blazer, all cards are jacks, queens, and/or kings. •
Two pair: any two pair of the same cards regardless of suit. •
Bobtail flush: Also called
four flush, Four cards of the same suit. •
Bobtail straight: Also called
four straight, four cards in consecutive order. •
One pair: any pair of the same cards regardless of suit. •
High card: any five cards of sequential rank or non-sequential rank regardless of suit such as A-K-Q-T-9, or T-9-7-6-4. Some poker games are played with a deck that has been
stripped of certain cards, usually low-ranking ones. For example, the
Australian game of
Manila uses a 32-card deck in which all cards below the rank of
7 are removed, and
Mexican Stud removes the
8s,
9s, and
10s. In both of these games, a flush ranks above a full house, because having fewer cards of each suit available makes full houses more common. ==Cats and dogs==