Best Video Poker Hands

Below we offer the list of all possible video poker hands. The hands are listed according to the size of payouts. Hence Royal flush offers the best payoffs and High card or One pair hand offers the lowest payback. Furthermore, as we have stated the higher the payouts are the lower chances of the hand showing up.

Royal Flush

Royal Flush hand is the straight of five cards of one suit with the cards of the highest rank: ace, king, queen, jack and ten. Royal Flush video poker hands are the best hands with the best payoffs.

Straight Flush

This hand is the sequence of the cards of one definite suit though the highest card may be any card. For example, poker hand comprising 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 of clubs is Straight flush.

Four of a Kind

This is winning hand which contains four card of the same rank and one of a different value, for instance, four kings and six.

Full House

Full House comprises three cards of the same value and two of another value, for instance two aces and three threes.

Flush

Flush hand has five cards of one definite suit (hearts, spades, clubs, diamonds) no matter the rank of these cards.

Straight

Straight hand is the hand that has the cards in straight no matter the suit, for instance 7, 8, 9, 10 and jack.

Three of a kind

This hand contains three cards of the same value for example the hand of three kings and two other cards any suit and rank.

Two pair

Two pair has two cards of the same rank and two cards of the same rank. For example, the hand of two eights and two fours is known as Two pair.

One pair

One pair hand comprises two cards of the same value and three different cards, as two nines and three any cards.

High card

This hand is the combination of different cards that doesn’t correspond to any of the winning combinations. This hand is used only in common poker since only when two or more players obtain high card video poker hands the winner is the one whose hand contains the highest card. In video poker every player play against computer hence it is not possible to compare the hands of the gamblers and define the winner. That is why High card is never applied in video poker.