Best To Worst Poker Hands?

Poker Hand Rankings F.A.Q. – What is the order of poker hands? As shown in the poker hand rankings chart, the order of poker rankings (from the highest to the lowest) is: Royal Flush, Straight Flush, Four-of-a-Kind, Full House, Flush, Straight, Three-of-a-Kind, Two Pair, One Pair, High Card.

What is the best hand in poker? The Royal Flush is the best hand in poker. To have a Royal Flush, you need an Ace, a King, a Queen, a Jack, and a 10. All the cards that compose the hand need to be of the same suit. What beats what in poker? As you can see in our poker hand rankings chart, the hands in poker follow a clear hierarchy.

In a game of poker, the hand rankings work as follows:

a pair beats a high card; a two pair beats a one pair;a three-of-a-kind beats a two pair;a straight beats a three-of-a-kind;a flush beats a straight;a full house beats a flush;a four-of-a-kind beats a full house;a straight flush beats a four-of-a-kind;a Royal Flush beats a straight flush.

The Royal Flush is the best hand in poker, so no one other hands beat this one. What is a straight in poker? You have a straight when all the five cards that compose your poker hand are consecutive ones.E.g.5-6-7-8-9. If the cards are of the same suit, you have a straight flush, which is a considerably stronger hand compare d to the simple straight.

a flush;a full house; a four-of-a-kind;a straight flush;a Royal Flush.

What beats a flush in poker? The list of hands that beat a flush includes:

a full house; a four-of-a-kind;a straight flush;a Royal Flush.

What beats a full house in poker? The list of hands that beat a full house includes:

a four-of-a-kind;a straight flush;a Royal Flush.

What is the highest suit in poker? All the suits in poker have the same value. In some games, different suits can be assigned different values. When that happens, the value is as follow (from the lowest to the highest): clubs, diamonds, hearts, spades.

In that case, spades is the highest suit. How many poker hands are there? The total number of poker hands in a game of poker is 2,598,960. Since a game of poker uses a 52-card deck of French cards, there are 2,598,960 different possible combinations (aka. poker hands). What hands to play in poker? The type of hands to play in a poker game depends on the game you play and other factors like your position in the hand, your stack, and the action at the table.

In a famous poker strategy article, professional player Jonathan Little shared which hands to play in poker and how to play marginal hands. Can you make three pairs? Although it is possible to hold a pair in your hand and then have another two pair appear among the five community cards, you can only use a total of five cards to make your poker hand, so you don’t win anything for three pairs.

• Which is better, a set or trips? They are both essentially the same hand because they are both three of a kind.
• The terminology “set” is used when you have a pair as your hole cards and then catch another one of those cards on the board.
• Trips” is when there is a pair on the board and you have another of those cards as one of your hole cards.

Sets are easier to disguise than trips so many consider them to be a better hand, although they both rank the same. What is a chopped or split pot? If you and an opponent have the same five-card poker hand, then the pot is divided equally between you. and your opponent has, and the board comes, You both would be playing the same five-card hands in terms of their value (A-J-T-8-3), and so would split the pot. If there is four of a kind on the board, who wins? Because the aim is to make a five-card poker hand, whoever has the highest fifth card in this case wins. If the board reads and you have in your hand and your opponent has, then you win because you hand is 7-7-7-7-A and your opponent’s is 7-7-7-7-K. You would also win even if your opponent holding was in this example. Are the suits ranked in Texas hold’em? No, they are not. Some poker variants have different ranks for suits, but hold’em is not one of them. Why did my 4-4-4-T-T lose to my opponent’s 7-7-7-8-8? As mentioned earlier, it is the three-of-a-kind element of a full house that dictates the winner.

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Which is the strongest hand in poker?

1. Royal Flush – This is the highest poker hand. It consists of ace, king, queen, jack and ten, all in the same suit. As all suits are equal, all royal flushes are equal.
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Why is 7 and 2 the worst hand?

2 and 7 – Matin Bahadori/Stockbyte/Getty Images Holding 2 and 7 off suit is considered the worst hand in Texas Hold’em. They are the lowest two cards you can have that cannot make a straight (there are five cards between 2 and 7). Even if they are suited, they will make you a very low flush, and if either makes pairs, it is still a low hand.
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What is the 7 2 rule in poker?

The 7-2 Game A few nights ago I had the chance to play at friend’s home game where we implemented the 7-2 game. For those of your not familiar, this is where anytime a player wins with 7-2, every other player at the table has to give them some amount of money.

In our case, we were playing a deep-stacked 1/2 game with six players and when someone won with 7-2, they would get $10 (5 BB) from every other player.25 BB total is not a bad score, especially when you’re able to take it down preflop. Some people hate the game, others love it, and I certainly fall into the later category.

Anything to drum up action and encourage bluffing is a win in my book. At first, it no one was getting dealt 7-2. After at least four orbits the hand was not shown down and everyone said they hadn’t seen the had once. This makes sense though- of the 1326 possible starting hand combos in NLHE, 7-2 comprises only 16 of them, for a little over 1% of total possible hands.

After about an hour though of no one getting the hand, seemingly all at once, a very high proportion were getting dealt, and this continued for the rest of the night. There were at least 4x as many 7-2 combos dealt as what one would expect based on the odds (I certainly wasn’t complaining about that!).

Poker: Best and Worst Starting Hands

While the game is normally fun, somewhat loose, with a good amount of aggression, the 7-2 game transformed the table to have a preflop aggression frequency higher than the toughest online 6max games. It seemed like there was a 3bet every few hands with no one ever really choosing to back down with 7-2.

• On top of the standard 3 and 4bet bluffs with 7-2, there were also a few notable pots where 7-2 triple barreled on a scary board and got called down on all three streets and where a player opted to flat with 7-2 preflop and make a series of bluffs postflop to take it down.
• For the home game that this was played in, I think the 7-2 game makes a lot of sense.

Everyone could afford to play these stakes so although the hyped up aggression left some people frustrated by the end of the night, it wasn’t going to make anyone not come back. The only scenario in which I could see the 7-2 game not making sense for one’s home game is if the stakes being played are meaningful to some, and the thought of losing 3 buyins or more in a friendly game is something that would discourage players from coming back (although in this type of case, my recommendation would be to lower the stakes, up the stack depth, and bring on the preflop aggression!).

• What I’m excited to further explore is not the merits of whether or not to play the 7-2 game sometimes – unless you hate action and people bluffing more, it’s worth at least trying for an hour or two.
• I want to look at how this game effects decisions so if you find yourself in a game where people are playing the 7-2 game, you know how to adjust.

I think it’s fairly obvious for those that have played the 7-2 game, most people over-adjust and bluff too much when holding 7-2. I’m going to look at how the reward of winning a hand wth 7-2 impacts one’s EV and your frequencies. For the sake of simplicity, let’s work with the assumption that the reward for winning with 7-2 is 30 BB – 5 BB at a 7 handed home game.

• Let’s say you normally open 3 BB to win 1.5 BB.
• Now with the 7-2 game in play the reward is 31.5 BB.
• So it’s clear even in early position 7-2 is a slam-dunk open.
• Now what about a 3bet? Let’s say you standardly 3bet to 10 BB over a 3 BB open.
• So now instead of risking 10 BB to win 4.5 BB, you’re risking 10 to win 34.5 BB.

At first glance it might seem like we should be 3betting 100% of the time with 7-2. I think in most games this is probably correct, but if you’re in a really loose game where people rarely fold to 3bets, or up against a particularly sticky player, it might be best to just fold against those type of players.

Because once called preflop, 7-2 has such poor equity against a calling range so without much fold equity postflop, best to just fold pre. Note in these games I would have a tiny or non-existent 3bet bluffing range without the 7-2 game. Most players will have a frequency that they fold to 3bets, even in a loose, aggressive, and deep stacked game, so most of the time you should replace some of your 3bet bluffs with 7-2.

The key when adjusting for this game is not completely throw off your relative frequencies – if you normally 3bet in late position with 9s+ AQ+ for value and A2s-A5s as a bluff, don’t just add 7-2 to your 3betting range unless these players won’t adjust to the 7-2 game – almost no one doesn’t adjust when playing the 7-2 game, if anything, most players in my experience over-adjust and always “put you on 7-2”.

So against most players you should also add at least the proportionate amount of value combos to keep your ratio of value hands to bluffs the same, if not more value hands due to overadjustment. Now on to 4bet bluffing. If a standard 4bet to a 10 BB 3bet is 35 BB, you’re normally risking 35 BB to win 11.5 BB, and with the 7-2 game to win 41.5 BB.

As you can see, after more preflop betting occurs, you’re starting to risk more to win relatively less. The same logic for when to 3bet bluff with 7-2 applies to 4betting, although because of the price we’re laying ourselves, we need to be a little more conservative than with 3betting.

• Against a relatively balanced player, we should be 4bet bluffing all combos of 7-2.
• But against someone who only 3bets very good hands or is looking to gamble with a merged value range, best to fold all combos of 7-2 preflop.
• I imagine there aren’t many opponents where it is correct to do anything but fold all combos or 4bet all combos.

It would take a particular opponent who is somewhat balanced in their 3betting range but a little too loose to warrant a mixed strategy with 7-2. Postflop Barreling frequencies with 7-2 postflop are largely dependent on the size of the pot after the preflop betting.

1. In a similar fashion to preflop, it’s likely correct to cbet 100% in a single-raised pot heads up- if our cbet sizing is on average 1/2 pot, then one is risking 3.25 BB to win 37.5 BB.
2. With multiple players in the pot, it still is likely correct to cbet 100% with 7-2 because of the price.
3. Even if the 3.25 BB cbet only gets through 15% of the time in a 4way pot, it’s still a really profitable cbet because you’re risking 3.25 BB to win 43.5 BB (only needs to work about 7.5% of the time to break even).

If you’re at a table where it’s so loose that cbets don’t go through on the flop when playing the 7-2 game because everyone puts you on it, don’t ever bluff postflop with 7-2 and please let me know if you ever need another player for the game. In a 3bet pot, the same logic largely applies.

• In a heads up pot when cbetting the flop you’re risking 10 BB to win 51.5 BB, so you only need the bet to work 18% of the time as opposed to the normal 33% without the 7-2 bonus.
• Note how much more of an attractive proposition cbetting is in a single-raised versus heads up pot: cbets only need to work 8.5% of the time versus 18% of the time.

And for 4bet pots this then changes to 26.5% which while is better than the 33% that it would need to work without the 7-2 game, won’t change your range as significantly. In a 4bet pot you should probably give up with some combos of 7-2 and replace your worst normal bluffing candidates with 7-2.

• Don’t be the guy that makes the hero triple barrel – on each street the extra 30 BB becomes much less of a factor.
• If it’s a 3bet pot heads up pot with 200 BB stacks to start the hand, and you get to the river with 100 BB in the pot and 150 BB behind.
• You decide to overbet the river and risk 150 BB to win 100 + 30 BB because goddamnit if you’ll lose with 7-2.

Normally you would need this bluff to work 60%. But with the extra 30 BB, this bet still needs to work 53.5% of the time, not that significant of a difference. If you decide it makes sense to have an overbetting range on a particular river card, it will likely make sense to include at least a combo or two of 7-2, just not all 12 combos.

• Equity when called + fold equity – bet when called and miss + bounty equity = 0
• Equity is when called = x
• % Opponent folds = y
• 7-2 Bounty = z
• So let’s say I bet 50 into 100 on a flop in a heads up pot.
• So the base equation before knowing our exact hands, equities, and bounty is the following knowing the size of the bet:
• x(1-y)*200 + y*100 – 50*(1-x)(1-y) + z = 0
• The flop is Kc6h9c.
• Which is a better c-bet bluffing candidate, 72o or J10c?

Let’s approximate that 7-2 has about 5% equity against a continuing range and J10c has 35% equity. Your opponent will fold 33%, 8% more than optimal. In the home game I played, the 7-2 bounty was 50.7-2,05(1-.33)*200 +,33*100 – 50*(1-.05)(1-.33) + 50 = 57.875 J10c,35(1-.33)*200 +,33*100 – 50*(1-.35)(1-.33) + 0 = 58.125

1. So in this case, we’d expect to profit about $7 (answer of equation – the bet) with our best bluffing candidate as well as 72o betting half pot in a medium sized pot for the stake, without much theoretical difference between the two hands.
2. Now let’s look at what happens if this flop was bet called and a blank turn comes out.
3. Kc6h9c4s

Which is a better bluffing candidate now for betting 140 into 200? Let’s adjust the base equation for this bet and pot size, how often your opponent folds (33%, a few % less than optimally against this bet size), and updated equities – 0% for 7-2 and 18% for J10c.

x(1-y)*480 + y*200 – 140*(1-x)(1-y) + z = 0 7-2 0(1-.33)*480 +,33*200 – 140*(1-0)(1-.33) + 50 = 117 J10c,18(1-.33)*480 +,33*200 – 140*(1-.18)(1-.33) + 0 = 201.796 As you can see, as the pot gets bigger, 7-2 becomes significantly worse (EV of -$23 in this example) to bluff compared to good draws (one would expect to profit $61 semibluffing J10c here).

Now a note on river play – if you do get to the river with 7-2, then it becomes your best bluff because none of your bluffs have equity but you get the extra bounty with 7-2. This doesn’t necessarily mean that you should always bluff with all combos of 7-2 you get to the river with, but you should defintely bluff all 7-2 combos before adding other bluffs.

• Conclusion The big takeaway is to still be quite aggressive with 7-2 – the extra 30 BB in most circumstances makes it an excellent bluffing candidate.
• This becomes less and less true on later streets, and in bloated pots.
• Just remember to not get too crazy and have it make your ratio of value bets to bluffs go out of whack – with the addition of 7-2 to a bluffing range, remember to value bet extra thinly.

: The 7-2 Game
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What hands should you never fold in poker?

The aces are always a favorite, and the only way you won’t be ahead is if you face the other two. This is why you can’t really fold aces; it’s like burning money. Whether it’s a tournament or a cash game, you can’t let go. Every other action might be correct under certain circumstances.
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Does 4 aces beat a full house?

The Math Behind a Full House – Drawing a full house marks a pretty rare occurrence, but the hand known as the “full boat” comes up significantly more often in a game of poker. You need to draw three-of-a-kind and a pair in the same five-card hand to make a full house. An example of a full house could be a hand like this: If you randomly draw five cards out of a 52-card deck, you have an 0.1441% probability of making a full house. That translates to 693.17-to-1 odds against drawing a full house. The deck gives us 156 distinct ways to make a full house. Multiplied by all possible suit combinations, there are 3,744 total ways to make a full house.

• The probability and the total number of ways to make a full house are higher for a full house than four-of-a-kind, making four-of-a-kind a rarer and stronger hand in a game of poker.
• In Texas Hold’em, you have a 2.6% chance of making a full house with all five community cards on the board.
• That equates to 35.7-to-1 odds against making a full house.

: Why Does Four of a Kind Beat a Full House?
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Is Royal flush the best hand?

An ace-high straight flush, commonly known as a royal flush, is the best possible hand in many variants of poker. In poker, players form sets of five playing cards, called hands, according to the rules of the game, Each hand has a rank, which is compared against the ranks of other hands participating in the showdown to decide who wins the pot,

In high games, like Texas hold ’em and seven-card stud, the highest-ranking hands win. In low games, like razz, the lowest-ranking hands win. In high-low split games, both the highest-ranking and lowest-ranking hands win, though different rules are used to rank the high and low hands. Each hand belongs to a category determined by the patterns formed by its cards.

A hand in a higher-ranking category always ranks higher than a hand in a lower-ranking category. A hand is ranked within its category using the ranks of its cards. Individual cards are ranked, from highest to lowest: A, K, Q, J, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3 and 2.

1. However, aces have the lowest rank under ace-to-five low or ace-to-six low rules, or under high rules as part of a five-high straight or straight flush.
2. Suits are not ranked, so hands that differ by suit alone are of equal rank.
3. There are nine categories of hand when using a standard 52-card deck, except under ace-to-five low rules where straights, flushes and straight flushes are not recognized.

An additional category, five of a kind, exists when using one or more wild cards, The fewer hands a category contains, the higher its rank. There are ways to deal five cards from the deck but only distinct hands, because the order in which cards are dealt or arranged in a hand does not matter. Moreover, since hands differing only by suit are of equal rank, there are only 7,462 distinct hand ranks,
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Does a straight flush beat 4 aces?

A straight flush beats a four-of-a-kind ; a Royal Flush beats a straight flush.
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What is a 56789 in poker?

In poker, a straight is made when we hold 5 cards all of consecutive rank, for example, 56789. Aces can be both high and low for the purposes of creating a straight, but the Ace must either appear at the beginning or end of the hand’s structure.
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Which poker suit is strongest?

The suits are all of equal value – no suit is higher than any other suit. In Poker, the Ace is the highest card and the 2 card (Deuce) is the lowest. However, the Ace can also be used as a low card, with the value of 1.
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Is 8 9 suited a good hand?

Final Thoughts – All this being said, 98 suited is still pretty awesome because it can make strong hands relatively often. You should oftentimes include it in many of your 3-betting and versus 3-bet ranges. It’s just not quite as awesome as 54 suited. That’s all for this article! This was a fun topic to cover and I hope you enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed writing it.
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What is the unluckiest hand in poker?

Dead man’s hand – Wikipedia Poker hand purportedly held by Wild Bill Hickok when he was killed For other uses, see, “Aces and eights” redirects here. For other uses, see, Not to be confused with or, The card hand purportedly held by at the time of his death: black aces and eights The makeup of ‘s dead man’s hand has varied through the years.
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What does donkey in poker mean?

A derogatory term used to refer to a weak, unskilled player.
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Why is 72 the worst hand in poker?

5 Hands You Should Never Play in Texas Holdem Poker At the begging of each round of Texas Hold ‘Em poker, you are dealt two cards. These are your hole cards or starting hand. Those hole cards can eventually be used with the cards revealed in the flop, turn and river to assemble a (hopefully) winning hand.

After you are dealt your starting cards, there is a round of betting. At this point, players look at their hold cards and choose to check, bet or fold. Anyone who doesn’t fold after viewing his hole cards then sees the three flop cards. Another round of betting occurs before the turn card is dealt. A round of betting also precedes the river card.

There is then one more round of betting, and the best five-card hand wins. That hand may or may not contain the hole cards. Some starting two-card hands are more likely to work well with the other cards in the deck than others. Of all the possible starting hands you can be dealt in Texas Hold ‘Em, the following five hands are the least welcome.
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What is the 2/4 rule in poker?

The 4-2 Rule as mentioned previously – The 4-2 Rule is a way to turn the number of drawing outs you have into your odds of hitting them. It’s times 4 on the flop to hit on the turn or river, and times 2 on the turn to hit your draw on the river. Example: a flopped flush draw is 9 outs.
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Can you do a2345 in poker?

For instance, in poker, ace2345 or poker, a2345 is generally considered the lowest possible straight otherwise known as a wheel in poker.
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Does 2pair beat a straight?

Why Does a Straight Beat Two Pair? Strong poker hands don’t come around all that often, so it’s crucial to know just where your made hand stacks up in the, If it’s a hand like two pair or a straight, it probably has a good chance of holding up as the winner when you take it to showdown.
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What is the weakest suit in poker?

High card by suit and low card by suit refer to assigning relative values to playing cards of equal rank based on their suit, When suit ranking is applied, the most common conventions are:

Alphabetical order: clubs (lowest), followed by diamonds, hearts, and spades (highest). This ranking is used in the game of bridge, Alternating colors: diamonds (lowest), followed by clubs, hearts, and spades (highest). Similar to alphabetical ranking in that the two highest rankings are occupied by the same two suits ( hearts and spades ) in the same relative position to one another, but differing in the two lowest rankings, which while occupied by the same two suits ( clubs and diamonds ) have their relative position to one another swapped. This ranking is sometimes used in the Chinese card game Big Two or Choh Dai Di. Some Russian card games like Preference, 1000 etc. use the following order: spades (lowest), clubs, diamonds and hearts (highest). The Australian card game 500 also uses this ordering. Some German card games (for example Skat ) use the following order: diamonds (lowest), hearts, spades and clubs (highest).

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Should you ever fold preflop?

When to Fold Before the Flop – In Texas Hold’em, the best poker players fold 75 percent or more of all starting hands before the betting even begins. A fundamentally sound preflop strategy sets you up for success in all subsequent betting rounds. Even the loosest preflop players (if they’re winning players) fold before the flop around 70 percent of the time.

To figure out when to fold before the flop, you need to establish a set of hand ranges that you’re willing to play from each position at the poker table. Hand range charts (like the Upswing Poker free preflop charts ) represent the best way to establish a solid preflop strategy. Preflop hand range charts dictate what hands to open raise with from each position, as well as which hands to call or raise with against a player who has bet before you get to act.

A good starting hand chart will have you doing a lot of folding preflop. A good preflop strategy involves playing tighter in early position, then adding more starting hands to your range in the later positions. Premium hands, like pocket aces, kings, queens, and ace-king, can be open raised from any position.
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What is the unluckiest hand in poker?

Dead man’s hand Poker hand purportedly held by Wild Bill Hickok when he was killed For other uses, see, “Aces and eights” redirects here. For other uses, see, Not to be confused with or, The card hand purportedly held by at the time of his death: black aces and eights The makeup of ‘s dead man’s hand has varied through the years.
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Why is 72 the worst hand in poker?

5 Hands You Should Never Play in Texas Holdem Poker At the begging of each round of Texas Hold ‘Em poker, you are dealt two cards. These are your hole cards or starting hand. Those hole cards can eventually be used with the cards revealed in the flop, turn and river to assemble a (hopefully) winning hand.

After you are dealt your starting cards, there is a round of betting. At this point, players look at their hold cards and choose to check, bet or fold. Anyone who doesn’t fold after viewing his hole cards then sees the three flop cards. Another round of betting occurs before the turn card is dealt. A round of betting also precedes the river card.

There is then one more round of betting, and the best five-card hand wins. That hand may or may not contain the hole cards. Some starting two-card hands are more likely to work well with the other cards in the deck than others. Of all the possible starting hands you can be dealt in Texas Hold ‘Em, the following five hands are the least welcome.
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What is the least valuable hand in poker?

What are the best and worst hands in poker? – The best hand in poker is a Royal Flush, which is the highest value straight flush. The worst hand in poker is a high card. The lowest possible high card five-card poker hand (if Aces are high) is 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 with no flush present.
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What is the weakest suit in poker?

High card by suit and low card by suit refer to assigning relative values to playing cards of equal rank based on their suit, When suit ranking is applied, the most common conventions are:

Alphabetical order: clubs (lowest), followed by diamonds, hearts, and spades (highest). This ranking is used in the game of bridge, Alternating colors: diamonds (lowest), followed by clubs, hearts, and spades (highest). Similar to alphabetical ranking in that the two highest rankings are occupied by the same two suits ( hearts and spades ) in the same relative position to one another, but differing in the two lowest rankings, which while occupied by the same two suits ( clubs and diamonds ) have their relative position to one another swapped. This ranking is sometimes used in the Chinese card game Big Two or Choh Dai Di. Some Russian card games like Preference, 1000 etc. use the following order: spades (lowest), clubs, diamonds and hearts (highest). The Australian card game 500 also uses this ordering. Some German card games (for example Skat ) use the following order: diamonds (lowest), hearts, spades and clubs (highest).

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