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Basic Poker Hands

The basic poker hands are described in the next table (gray cards are not involved in hand):

Hand	Sample
Pair  Two ranked cards	A A 2 3 J
Two pairs  Two cards of one rank and two cards of another rank.	K K 2 J J
Three of Kind  Three ranked cards.	Q Q Q 3 K
Straight  Five cards in sequence.	3 4 5 6 7
Flush  Five cards of the same suit.	A Q 2 3 5
Full House Three cards of one rank and two cards of another rank.	A A 2 2 2
Four of Kind Four ranked cards.	5 5 5 5 Q
Straight Flush Five sequential cards all of the same suit.	4 5 6 7 8
Royal Flush Five highest card (from Ace to Ten) of the same suit.	A K Q J T

The most of video poker variations use pairs only higher then ten (Tens or Better), Jack (Jacks or Better), King (Kings or Better), or only pair of Aces (Two Aces, Aces).

If the deck consists of wild cards (jokers, wild deuces), then they take the most preferable value for player. Rules of the wild video pokers regularly split the Royal Flush to the two hands: with wilds (Wild Royal Flush) and without wilds (Natural Royal Flush).