Poker Hand Rankings: Best to Worst 1. Royal Flush Ace-King-Queen-Jack-Ten, all of the same suit 2. Straight Flush Five consecutive cards, all of the same suit 3. Four of a Kind Four cards of the same rank (also known as quads) 4. Full House Three cards of the same rank, plus two cards both of another rank (also known as a boat) 5. Flush Five cards of the same suit 6. Straight Five consecutive cards 7. Three of a Kind Three cards of the same rank (also known as a set when using two hole cards, or trips when using one hole card) 8. Two Pair Two cards of the same rank, plus two cards both of another rank 9. Pair Two cards of the same rank 10. High Card Any five cards that don’t fall into the above categories How to Evaluate Poker Hands When you’re playing any of the three flop games at Bovada Poker (Texas Hold’em, Omaha and Omaha Hi/Lo), you’ll be starting with either two or four hole cards, so you won’t have a full 5-card poker hand until the community cards are dealt. You’ll have to judge your hole cards by how promising they are – we’ll get to that later on with our online poker tips for “starting hands.” Then, once the flop comes, you have to mentally arrange those three community cards with your hole cards and see not only what your best 5-card