Non-standard Poker Hand - Types

Types

The usual hierarchy of poker hands from highest to lowest runs as follows (standard poker hands are in italics):

  • Five of a kind: Five cards of the same rank, only possible using one or more wild cards, and multiple or extended decks.
  • Royal Flush: See at Straight Flush.
  • Skeet flush: The same cards as a skeet (see below) but all in the same suit.
  • Straight flush: The highest straight flush, A-K-Q-J-10 suited, is also called a royal 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).
  • Four of a kind: Between two equal sets of four of a kind (possible in wild card and community card poker games or with multiple or extended decks), the kicker determines the winner.
  • Big bobtail: A four card straight flush (four cards of the same suit in consecutive order).
  • Full house
  • Flush: When wild cards are used, a wild card contained in a flush is considered to be of the highest rank not already present in the hand. For example, in the hand (Wild) 10♥ 8♥ 5♥ 4♥, the wild card plays as the A♥, but in the hand A♣ K♣ (Wild) 9♣ 6♣, it plays as the Q♣. (As noted above, if a wild card would complete a straight flush, it will play as the card that would make the highest possible hand.) A variation is the double-ace flush rule, in which a wild card in a flush always plays as an ace, even if one is already present (unless the wild card would complete a straight flush). In such a game, the hand A♠ (Wild) 9♠ 5♠ 2♠ would defeat A♦ K♦ Q♦ 10♦ 8♦ (the wild card playing as an imaginary second A♠), whereas by the standard rules it would lose (because even with the wild card playing as a K♠, the latter hand's Q♦ outranks the former's 9♠).
  • Straight Flush House: Same as Flush House (see below), but all cards are in consecutive order.
  • Big cat: See cats and dogs below.
  • Little cat: See cats and dogs below.
  • Big dog: See cats and dogs below.
  • Little dog: See cats and dogs below.
  • Straight: When wild cards are used, the wild card becomes whichever rank is necessary to complete the straight. If two different ranks would complete a straight, it becomes the higher. For example, in the hand J♦ 10♠ 9♣ (Wild) 7♠, the wild card plays as an 8 (of any suit; it doesn't matter). In the hand (Wild) 6♥ 5♦ 4♥ 3♦, it plays as a 7 (even though a 2 would also make a straight).
  • Wrap-around straight: Also called an round-the-corner straight, consecutive cards including an ace which counts as both the high and low card. (Example Q-K-A-2-3).
  • Skip straight: Also called alternate straight, Dutch straight, skipper, or kangaroo straight, Cards are in consecutive order, skipping every second rank (example 3-5-7-9-J).
  • Five and dime: All cards are any five of: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10, with no pair.
  • Skeet: Also called pelter or bracket, A hand with a deuce (2); a 3 or a 4; a 5; a 6, 7, or an 8; and a 9.
  • 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
  • Russ: Five cards of the same color.
  • Bobtail flush: Also called four flush, Four cards of the same suit.
  • Flush house: Three cards of one suit and two cards of another.
  • Bobtail straight: Also called four straight, four cards in consecutive order.
  • One pair
  • High card

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.

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