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It’s not hard to learn how to play poker. All you need is the willingness to take a few lumps before securing a victory and the ability to adapt to new situations – not to mention a mind decently conditioned for working out mathematical calculations. You must, after all, be able to determine your chances of winning if you’re to play poker online like the pros.
The big part of poker before you play online is knowing all the poker hands. They run as such, from least powerful to most in terms of play:
• High card. If your cards have no relation to one another whatsoever, the highest card acts as your hand. Pretty weak, and almost never likely to win.
• Pair. Two cards of an equal rank. Again, this isn’t likely to win any play.
• Two pair. Two separate pairs. A bit better, but not great.
• Three of a kind. You’re getting up there now in terms of strength.
• Straight. Your cards represent a run of numbers, be they either high or low. Ace, 2, 3, 4, 5 represents a straight. Bear in mind that these cards are not of the same suit.
• Flush. Five cards in the same suit but not in a straight. Any random cards of one suit will do for this.
• Full house. Essentially a pair combined with a three of a kind. Full house is the most likely high-power hand that you’re going to come across.
• Four of a kind. Fairly rare, you have four cards of the same rank.
• Straight flush. Combines the straight and the flush; you have five cards in sequential order and of the same suit. So a 9, 10, Jack, King, Queen hand, all of diamonds, is a straight flush (and only one card different from the very best poker hand).
• Royal flush. The royal flush, the epitome of card play, is a 10 Jack Queen King Ace hand, all of the same suit. It’s notoriously difficult to get a royal flush regardless of which variant you’re playing.
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