Five Card Poker Hand

In most poker variants, a five card poker hand is the maximum number of cards that can be used to make a winning hand. Of course you may not use all five as you may have a high card (one card), a pair (two cards), two pair (4 cards) or three of a kind (three cards) and four of a kind (four cards).

Poker players however always aim to make the best five card poker hand and these hands include a straight, flush, straight flush, full house and royal flush.

In popular poker games such as Texas Hold’em, a player will use their 2 hole cards in combination with the 5 community cards to make the best possible 5 card poker hand. In many other community card games players are dealt more than 2 hole cards however the principle aim is still the same.

Please visit our ranking of poker hands which shows you the ranking of all poker hands.