Most Common Hand In Texas Holdem

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The above 3 sets of hands add up to form the common answer of 169 Texas Hold’em starting hands There are actually 1,326 combinations of starting hands if you count suits (e.g. A♣- A♦ and A♠- A♥ are different hands), but that is more of a “just for fun” number as suits have no value over each other in Texas Hold’em. Ever since the early days of Texas holdem poker, players have attempted to analyze and organize the 169 possible two card starting hands found in the game. One traditional way of doing so involves running thousands upon thousands of simulations in which a particular holdem hand is played out against nine random opponent hands. One Pair is the most common combination out of all poker hands in Texas Hold'em. It accounts for almost half of all poker hands. One Pair in most variants of poker ranks under a Two Pair hand.

All the suits in poker are of equal value. It makes no difference whether someone has the ace of clubs or the ace of diamonds. If remaining players have exactly the same hand at showdown, only in different suits, the pot is split.

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Hand Ranking

The value of poker hands is determined by how rare or common it is to be dealt them, with the most common hands valued lower than the rarer hands. The complete list of poker hands is as follows, in increasing order of scarcity:

Most Common Winning Hand In Texas Hold'em

  1. High card
  2. One pair
  3. Two pair
  4. Three of a kind (sometimes called “trips” or “a set”)
  5. Straight
  6. Flush
  7. Full house
  8. Four of a kind (sometimes called “quads”)
  9. Straight flush

A high card is the very least you can have in the game of poker. If you have no pair, three of a kind, straight, flush, full house, etc., then the highest card in your hand is considered to be decisive. The hand above, in which the best card is a king and there is no other combination of poker hand, is known as “king-high”.

Ace high beats king high. King high beats queen high, and so on.

Texas Holdem Starting Hands

If the high cards in two players’ hands is the same, the second-highest card becomes decisive. If these cards are also the same, the third-highest card plays and so on. These cards are known as the kicker.

High card ace, king kicker:

Player 1 has A♠K♣
Player 2 has A♦Q♦
The board is 9♠6♥4♥3♠2♣

Texas Holdem Hands Chart

Both players have an ace, but Player 1 wins, because he has a king as his second highest card (kicker). His opponent only has a queen.