Poker Quads Vs Full House
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.
Hand Ranking
A slightly more common scenario for two players making quads occurs when the quads appears solely on the board. Board: Q♥Q♦Q♠5♦Q♣ Hand 1: K♦K♠ Hand 2: A♠4♣ The above provides an example of the concept of “counterfeiting”. Hand 1 has a strong full house on the turn, Queens full. Poker Legislation Twitch Online Poker Televised Poker General Poker Strategy Beginners Questions Books and Publications Poker Tells/Behavior Poker Theory Psychology No Limit Hold’em Medium-High Stakes Micro-Small Stakes Med-High Full Ring Micro-Small Full Ring Heads Up NL Live Low-stakes NL Limit Hold’em Mid-High Stakes Micro-Small Stakes.
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:
- High card
- One pair
- Two pair
- Three of a kind (sometimes called “trips” or “a set”)
- Straight
- Flush
- Full house
- Four of a kind (sometimes called “quads”)
- 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.
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♣
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.
You wait an entire year for the World Series of Poker Main Event to roll around. You register. You find out that you’re on the feature table. You take your seat. “Person, woman, man, camera, TV.” I mean “lights, camera, action”.
You look down at Aces. You flop top set. You turn a boat. Chips are being shoveled into the pot. Your victim is on the hook... or so you think.
Top boat versus quads in level 1 of the Main Event - it’s a poker player’s nightmare. It was also Vanessa Selbst’s reality in 20178 when she faced off against Gaelle Baumann in one of the most famous WSOP hands of all-time.
In the latest animated strategy video from ‘The Chip Race’, Dara O’Kearney and guest analyst Daiva Byrne (@baltic_blonde) break down the hand on every street, ultimately making the case that Selbst could and should have gotten away.
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