What Makes A Winning Hand?
Texas Hold’em is a game of skill and strategy. It involved a number of players with two cards each and five shared (community) 
cards. After all the cards are dealt, players show hands and place them against each other in order to determine the winner. In order to determine the winning hand, please refer to the list below. It is ranked from highest to lowest. Any hand described at the list that is further down the bottom is of a lower rank than those above it.
A Royal Flush is composed of the following cards: 10 J Q K A all of the same suit. The higher suit is considered the winning hand.
A Straight Flush is composed of any five cards of consecutive ranking that are all under the same suit.
A Four-of-a-Kind or a Quad is composed of four cards of the same rank and one other card that can be any card at all. Higher hand is determined by the higher rank.
A Full House or Full Boat is composed of three cards of the same rank combined with two cards of the same rank. For example, three fives and two Aces. Higher hand is determined by the three-of-a-kind, not the pair.
A Flush is composed of five cards sharing the same suit. The rank does not matter here, however if two players have a same-suit flush, the hand with the better “highest card” is the winning hand.
A Straight is composed of five cards that are in a consecutive rank, such as 2 3 4 5 6. Higher hand is determined by the better “highest card”.
A Three-of-a-Kind or “Trips” is composed of five cards: three cards share the same rank while the other two are different cards (different from each other and different from the three other cards). Higher hand is determined by the higher three of a kind.
A Two Pair is compsoed of five cards: two pairs, and one other card of any rank. Higher pair merits the higher hand.
A One Pair is composed of two cards of the same rank and three other cards that are completely different.