Posted by George | Posted in Poker | Posted on 27-03-2013
Poker has very interesting phrases for a few of its many combinations of hands. For the newbie, occasionally these terms merely don’t make any sense, and most times as not, they have names which are very easily confused. That’s because a few of the named hands will have real names of the cards in them, such as the hand ‘Aces Full’.
Obviously having a hand known as Aces Full, you would certainly expect a few aces in there, but how many and what the leftover cards are could be a unknown to the beginner. A player who says they’ve aces full simply indicates that they possess a full house which consists of 3 aces along with a pair of any other cards.
As an instance, Ace-A-Ace-10-ten would be aces full of 10s. A player whose hand holds a full house which is made up of 3 aces plus a pair will defeat all other full houses.
A full house will defeat any hand consisting of a pair, 2 pair, three of a kind, a straight or a flush. It will only lose to a hand consisting of 4 of an kind, a straight flush along with a royal flush. If two players possess a full house, then the winner can be the player who is holding the highest three of the kind.
If it really should happen that 2 players have the same three of an variety, then the gambler with the best pair is deemed the winner. As an illustration, in case you had aces full of 3 A-Ace-Ace-three-three, and your competitor’s hand held kings full of tens K-King-K-ten-10, you would win because your hand is higher, since 3 aces rank higher than three kings.
Another excellent example using the betting house game hold em, in case you kept pocket aces and the flop showed A-Q-Q-3-five you’d also have a full house. This would be due to the fact you’ve the 2 aces as your hole cards making the three of the form, and the five community cards which hold the 2 queens, which together generate up your full house.
Statistics display that the odds are Six hundred ninety three to one against you becoming dealt a full house before the draw. Using a four of the kind, that is what it takes next in rank to beat a full house, the odds are 4,164 to one to you becoming given this hand prior to the draw. If you really want to whack a full house out of the water, and show someone you know Lady Luck in person, pull out a straight flush at an incredible 64,973 to 1 odds.