Best Video Poker Hands

Here we offer the list of possible winning video poker hands. They are listed according to the size of payouts. Thus Royal flush offers the highest payoffs while High card or One pair hand is the worst paid out. Moreover, as we have underlined the bigger the payoffs are the lower possibility of the hand coming out.

Royal Flush

Royal Flush hand is the straight of five cards of one suit made up of the cards of the highest value: ace, king, queen, jack and ten. Royal Flush hands are the best winning video poker hands with the highest payback.

Straight Flush

Straight flush hand is the straight of five cards of the same suit however the highest card is any card not like in royal flush. For instance, video poker hand which contains 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 of spades is Straight flush.

Four of a Kind

This is the hand with four card of one value and one card of a different rank, for example, four eights and two.

Full House

Full House contains three cards of one value and two of another value, for instance two fours and three twos.

Flush

Flush hand has any cards of the same suit without regard to the rank of the cards.

Straight

Straight hand is the hand consisting of the cards in sequence without regard to the suit, as 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9.

Three of a kind

This hand comprises three cards of the same rank like three twos and two other cards with any value and suit.

Two pair

This hand has two cards of one rank and two cards of one rank. For instance, the hand of two jacks and two nines is known as Two pair.

One pair

This hand consists of two cards of one definite rank and three other cards, for example two aces and three other cards.

High card

This hand is the combination of any cards which doesn’t match any of the possible hands. This hand is applied just in regular poker game since only in case two or more gamblers obtain these video poker hands the winner is that gambler whose hand has the highest card. In video poker game any player play against computer thus it is impossible to compare any hands of the players and determine the winner. That’s why High card is not applied in video poker games.