Poker cheat sheet
The ten poker hands in one table, strongest first. It is built for two things: reading on a phone in the middle of a hand, and printing on a single sheet to leave on the table.
Fits on one page. Printing drops the menus and keeps the table.
| # | Hand | Example |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Royal flush Ace, king, queen, jack, ten, one suit | |
| 2 | Straight flush Five in a row, one suit | |
| 3 | Four of a kind Four of the same rank | |
| 4 | Full house Three of a kind and a pair | |
| 5 | Flush Five of the same suit | |
| 6 | Straight Five in a row | |
| 7 | Three of a kind Three of the same rank | |
| 8 | Two pair Two different pairs | |
| 9 | Pair Two of the same rank | |
| 10 | High card None of the above |
If two of you get there
The five cards are compared one at a time, highest to lowest, and the first difference decides. The suit never breaks a tie. If all five match, the pot is split.
Hand rankings, hand chart, cheat sheet
Same sheet under every name. Some people print it as a hand ranking chart, some keep it open on a phone. What matters is that the order below is the one every table plays by.
What the table does not tell you
The table settles what beats what. It says nothing about when each card is dealt, when it is your turn, or how much to put in, and that is the other half of the game.
Keep going
Reading the hand is the first step, not the game
The order takes an afternoon to learn. What takes work is looking at the table and seeing what the other player might hold, and that is not read: it is decided, many times over, until it comes out on its own.
A course from zero, no money and no casino.