 
Hi, I'm Martin from Claremonts.com. I'm gonna very very quickly now, run you through the
Hand Hierarchy in the game of Poker. You
need to know how strong a hand you've got.
I'm gonna teach you, from bottom to top,
the different hands that you'll
hopefully be winning with
in the game of Poker.
Now sometimes, you'll have, just the way the game works, you'll get to the end of a hand of Poker and
there won't be any very good hands out there.
But somebody's got to win. That's the
lovely thing about Poker, every hand somebody
wins.
It's possible to win with a hand just
like this one;
Ace, 9, 6, 5, 2. Whats that one? That's just,
there's not even a Pair there is there? That's just an Ace high, where you've got five cards that don't match
each other.
So what do we do? We figure out what the best
card is, that's an Ace
high. An Ace with a 9 in fact. If the two of you had an Ace,
then the second card would
be the judgment
of who was the winner in the hand. Very very weak hand. It does happen quite often,
that just an Ace or just a King as a High Card is enough to win you the hand.
A little bit more commonly,
you'll see this all the time, the hand will be won by just a Pair.
A Pair, a Pair of 7's in this case. Any
two cards that match, they can be
one that's here and one's that's part of the Flop. One Pair,
that's your next one just two cards. Of course a Pair of 10's
will always beat a Pair of 7's.
Moving up through the Hand Hierarchy, your next one here is a Pair of Queens with a
Pair of 8's.
We call that Two Pair. Two Pair beats the
One Pair,
it beats the single High Card. Two Pair here, Queens and 8's.
Again, if two of you have got a Two Pair, it will
go on the first
highest Pair. So, if you've got
Aces
and 4's, you would beat Queens and 8's
because your higher Pair, the Aces
is up the Queen's there. If you'd got 6's
and 7's,
you wouldn't beat Queen's and 8's.
 
