There may at one time have been a political undertone, in that people wanted to see a king overthrown by the most humble peasant, in a card game if not in real life. Games in which the ace is the highest card, outranking the king, certainly existed in the early 16th century—for example the Venetian game Trappola, the French game Piquet and the English game Triumph, and my guess would be that the transition began in the late 15th century.
Games with the king high survived for a long while alongside ace high games, and some continue to survive—examples are cribbage, most Games with the king high survived for a long while alongside ace high games, and some continue to survive—examples are cribbage, most patience solitaire games and all of the Tarot games. Fake duty ace of spades, c. There are three common ways of ranking low hands, ace-to-five low, ace-to-six low, and deuce-to-seven low, named after the best possible hands in the respective systems.
In all systems, paired cards are bad and cannot be used to beat any hand that does not have a pair. Likewise, a pair beats three of a kind, three of a kind beats a full house, and a full house beats four of a kind.
The most common hand ranking system for low hands is ace-to-five, used almost universally in high-low split games and very common in other games. This means A called a wheel or bicycle , just as it is as a high hand is the best possible low hand, and the ace is the lowest card.
For a high-low split game, it also forms a high hand: a five-high straight. In order to avoid confusion, we will discuss only ace-to-five low at the moment. When pairs and any other "bad" hands are not present, then the winner is the one whose highest card is lowest.
For this reason, a low hand is usually described highest card first, to make it easier to tell which is lower. In ace-to-five, A loses to because the highest card in the first hand eight is higher than the highest card in the second hand seven , even though all the other cards in the second hand are lower.
If the highest cards are the same, then the next-highest cards are considered, and so on: A loses to because the second hand goes lower first. In ace-to-six low, straights and flushes count for high that is, they're bad , and the best possible hand is A unsuited, since it's the lowest possible card combination that avoids pairing, straights, and flushes.
Deuce-to-seven is identical except the ace is the highest card, so the best possible hand is unsuited. Therefore, in deuce-to-seven low, the hand that would make the worst possible high hand in traditional poker is the best possible low hand, and vice versa: a royal flush is the worst possible hand.
From Wikibooks, open books for an open world. Hand rankings [ edit edit source ] The most fundamental of poker concern the hand rankings, because the hand rankings determine the winner. You have more card combinations to make a straight, since they do not have to be of the same suit. You have only 13 outs to make any flush. That is why a flush is higher in value.
The straight flush is the rarest. The straight flush is still the rarest hand, but a straight is less likely than a flush. If we add a fifth suit, five of a kind is possible. Begin typing your search term above and press enter to search.
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