General Poker Rules: TIES

1. The ranking of suits from highest to lowest is spades, hearts, diamonds, clubs. Suits never break a tie for winning a pot. Suits are used to break a tie between cards of the same rank (no redeal or redraw).

2. Dealing a card to each player is used to determine things like who moves to another table. If the cards are dealt, the order is clockwise starting with the first player on the dealer’s left (the button position is irrelevant). Drawing a card is used to determine things like who gets the button in a new game.

3. An odd chip will be broken down to the smallest unit used in the game.

4. No player may receive more than one odd chip.

5. If two or more hands tie, an odd chip will be awarded as follows:

(a) In a button game, the first hand clockwise from the button gets the odd chip.

(b) In a stud game, the odd chip will be given to the highest card by suit in all high games, and to the lowest card by suit in all low games. (When making this determination, all cards are used, not just the five cards that constitute the player's hand.)

(c) In high-low split games, the high hand receives the odd chip in a split between the high and the low hands. The odd chip between tied high hands is awarded as in a high game of that poker form, and the odd chip between tied low hands is awarded as in a low game of that poker form.

(d) All side pots and the main pot will be split as separate pots, not mixed together.

The Ranking of Poker Hands

The ranking of poker hands based on probability starting from the highest are as follows.

There are 2,598,960 possible combinations of cards in a poker hand you can be dealt. In brackets below next to the ranking of hands, are 1st the number of possible hands of that rank in 2,598,960 possible combinations, and 2nd your chances of getting one in percentage probability:

   1. Five of a Kind (with a Wild card or Joker)
   2. Royal Flush (4 possible hands in 2,598,960. Chance to get one: 0.000154%)
   3. Straight Flush (36 possible hands in 2,598,960. Chance to get one: 0.00139%)
   4. Four of a Kind (624 possible hands in 2,598,960. Chance to get one: 0.0240%)
   5. Full House (3744 possible hands in 2,598,960. Chance to get one: 0.144%)
   6. Flush (5108 possible hands in 2,598,960. Chance to get one: 0.197%)
   7. Straight (10,200 possible hands in 2,598,960. Chance to get one: 0.392%)
   8. Three of a Kind (54912 possible hands in 2,598,960. Chance to get one: 2.11%)
   9. Two Pair (123,552 possible hands in 2,598,960. Chance to get one: 4.75%)
  10. Pair (1,098,240 possible hands in 2,598,960. Chance to get one: 42.26%)
  11. High Card (1,302,540 possible hands in 2,598,960. Chance to get one: 50.12%)

Five of a Kind is only possible when using wild cards and is the highest possible hand. If more than one hand has five-of-a-kind, the higher rank wins; e.g. five Aces beat five kings, which beat five queens, and so on.

Straight Flush is the best natural hand. A straight flush consists of five cards in sequence and of the same suit. An Ace high straight-flush is called a Royal Straight Flush or Royal Flush and is the highest natural hand.

Four of a Kind is a hand that contains of four cards of the same ran