Poker rules general III
Playing a game of poker, someone may often need the high card to win the hand. Actually whenever anyone don’t have the usual card combinations such as Five of a Kind, Straight Flush, Four of a Kind, Full House, Flush, Straight, Three of a Kind, Two Pair or Pair in the 5 cards he is holding, then the cards constitute the high card. When there is a tie between players with various combination hand ranking, then too the concept of high card comes into play. In the high card playing scenario, when the highest value is tied, the second highest is taken into account and so on.
When one has a Flush in hand, he has five cards of the same suit and if he has a Straight, the cards are arranged sequentially. A high straight will have a high ace and four consecutive cards whereas a low straight has a low ace and four preceding cards. Straight hands may not be a wraparound and have a broken sequence, such as queen, king, ace, 2 and 3. In case of a tie between straight hands, the one with the higher value wins, but if more than one player has same value of straight hands, then the pot is split between the players, adjudged as joint winners.
In Three of a Kind combination, with three cards of same rank, the remaining two cards are disparate while in a Two Pairs situation, the players have a distinct fifth card and the other four are in the form of two pairs of same rank. If one has a Pair, then there are three dissimilar cards and one Pair. In each of these cases, the players who have the higher valuation of combination wins, that is anyone with a higher value Three of a Kind or Two Pairs or Pair wins. In case of ties, high card among the dissimilar cards is used to find the winner.
