3/24/2022

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Rank of High Hands. In Seven-card Stud, players compare five card hands against each other to determine who wins. A player with a Royal Flush has a better hand than a player with a Full House, for example. Below is a list of standard combinations ranked from best to worst.

Below is a listing of Poker Hands ranked in order from the best possible hand, to the lowest possible hand that you can get while playing Poker.

Royal Flush (Best Hand You Can Get):
A royal flush is when you get A, K, Q, J, and 10 in all the same suit. Any suit means they can be either all hearts, all diamonds, all clubs or all spades.

Straight Flush:
A straight flush is when you get any 5 cards in a row that are all the same suit. An example of this would be 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 all hearts. Any suit means they can be either all hearts, all diamonds, all clubs or all spades.

Four of a Kind (AKA Quads):
4 of a kind means that you have 4 of the same ranked card plus one other meaningless card. The best possible for of a kind would be four aces: AAAAX (where X is any other card)

Full House (AKA A Boat):
A full house means that you have a combination of 3 of one card (i.e. 5) and 2 of another card (i.e. J). Basically it is a combination of a pair and three of a kind as listed below. The higher combination of 3 cards is used to decide the higher full house.

Straight:
A straight is when you get any 5 cards in a row. Suits do not matter in a straight. An example of this would be 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 any suits.

Three of a Kind (AKA Trips or A Set):
Three of a kind means that you have gotten three of the same value (in this example 5's) with two other cards that do not matter. 3 A's are the highest and 3 2's are the lowest.

Two Pair:
Two Pair means that you have gotten two pairs of cards of the same value (in this example A's and 6's). When two players have the same high pair, the player with the higher of the lower pairs wins.

A Pair:
A Pair means that you have gotten two cards of the same value (in this example A's and 6's). When two players have the same pair, the player with the highest of the remaining cards wins.

High Card:
The lowest scoring hand in poker. This means that the highest card in your hand is used to determine if you have a better hand over your opponent.

Bryce Yockey in disbelief after the biggest bad beat in poker history on the biggest stage.

The other important notation you’ll often see is “+”, which can mean different things depending on what hand it’s attached to. The notation 22+ means you should be playing 22 and all other higher-ranking pocket pairs. 77+ means play all pocket pairs including 77 and better, so this range excludes the pocket pairs 22 through 66.
Play only the cards in the 10-best list and always fold those in the worst hands list. Following this strategy may improve your results. However, there's no guarantee that receiving a strong starting hand will take the round, or that a weak starting hand is a definite loss.

The final table of the 2019 World Series of Poker $50,000 Poker Players Championship produced quite possibly the worst bad beat in poker history as Bryce Yockey saw a 99.843% hand turn into dust when Josh Arieh beat him on the final draw in 2-7 Triple Draw.

Nick Schulman coined the bad beat that Arieh put on Yockey, “The bad beat to end all bad beats,” before it happened and to fully grasp the situation you have to watch the clip.

Yockey started with the second strongest hand in the game, which has a 1 in 2,548 chance of occurring while Arieh needed three draws to beat him and make the only possible combination that would do so. A crazy detail about this hand is that the only path for Arieh to the winning hand was for him to make a straight first before he could draw to the perfect 7-5 low.

“This is the worst beat I’ve ever seen in a televised tournament,” Schulman said, as Yockey made his departure from the tournament in fourth place. Yockey collected $325,989 for his efforts after which John Esposito, Phil Hui, and Josh Arieh continued to battle for the $1,099,311 first prize. Watch the full final table of this event on PokerGO right now.

Understanding 2-7 Triple Draw

In the game of Limit 2-7 Triple Draw, the goal is to make the worst possible five-card hand without a straight or a flush. The best hand in this game, as shown in this video, is 7-5-4-3-2 followed by 7-6-4-3-2. In this game, there are three draws during which you can ask for as many new cards as you want.

Bad Beats in Texas Hold’em

Bad beats in poker are common and every player who’s played a game or two will have seen his or her aces disappear like snow in the bright Las Vegas sun when a king on the river gives your opponent three of a kind.

To provide some context on how crazy Yockey’s hand was, let’s draw some parallels with No Limit Texas Hold’em. Aces versus kings before the flop is an 81.06% favorite, a number that increases to 91.62% after a blank flop and 95.45% on the turn. Having only two cards to improve with the river to come is still a 4.55% chance of winning!

In an even worse scenario, the worst of two sets on the flop has 4.34% with two cards to come and that number is reduced to 2.27% with only the river left to make four of a kind. For some more context, winning with ace-king offsuit versus ace-king offsuit has a 2.17% chance but in that case, of course, you are 95.65% to casually split the pot!

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Ever played so wild that you ended up all in with deuce-three offsuit against pocket aces? Well, you still have a 13.3% chance to win the hand before the flop! After a random flop where your only remaining winning outs are running cards, however, you have a 1.52% chance to win and even that is still a lot better than having just 0.16% as Josh Arieh did!

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Click this link to see the Twitter conversation about this hand in which some big name poker pros chime in on how unlikely this runout truly was.

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