• Poker Rules Split Pot Flush Kit
• Poker Rules Split Pot Flush Pans

All the suits in poker are of equal value. It makes no difference whether someone has the ace of clubs or the ace of diamonds. If remaining players have exactly the same hand at showdown, only in different suits, the pot is split.

In poker, the best five-card hand plays at showdown. If there is a flush on the board, and no player at the showdown has a card of that suit, then all players have the same flush and the pot is split evenly between all the players. 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. 3 4 An ace-high straight flush, commonly known as a royal flush, is the best possible hand in many variants of poker.

Always remember that wild cards do not hold rank and value in a straight flush and in case of two players with the same winning straight flush, the pot will be split regardless for which card the wild card is substituted. In some poker rooms or poker tables, there may be limitation of the use of wild cards for making Five of a Kind. In high-low games, the easiest split pot is when one player wins the high and the other wins the low. Here, you simply divide by two and each player collects their winnings. A player with the best high and the best low hand 'scoops' the whole thing.

Hand Ranking

The value of poker hands is determined by how rare or common it is to be dealt them, with the most common hands valued lower than the rarer hands. The complete list of poker hands is as follows, in increasing order of scarcity:

1. High card
2. One pair
3. Two pair
4. Three of a kind (sometimes called “trips” or “a set”)
5. Straight
6. Flush
7. Full house
8. Four of a kind (sometimes called “quads”)
9. Straight flush

High Card

If you have no pair, three of a kind, straight, flush, full house, etc., then the highest card in your hand is considered to be decisive. The hand above, in which the best card is a king and there is no other combination of poker hand, is known as “king high”.

Ace high beats king high. King high beats queen high, and so on.

Poker Rules Split Pot Flush Kit

If the high cards in two players’ hands is the same, the second-highest card becomes decisive. If these cards are also the same, the third-highest card plays and so on. These cards are known as the kicker.

High card ace, king kicker:

Player 1 has A♠K♣
Player 2 has A♦Q♦
The board is 9♠6♥4♥3♠2♣

Poker Rules Split Pot Flush Pans

Both players have an ace, but Player 1 wins, because he has a king as his second highest card (kicker). His opponent only has a queen.