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Full house (poker)

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A poker hand such as 3♣ 3♠ 3♦ 6♣ 6♥, which contains three matching cards of one rank, plus two matching cards of another rank. Also called a "boat" or "tight". Ranks above a flush and below four of a kind.

Between two full houses, the one with the higher ranking set of trips wins. If two have the same set of trips (possible in wild card and community card games), the hand with the higher pair wins.

Examples:

  • 10♠ 10♥ 10♦ 4♠ 4♦ ("tens full") defeats 9♥ 9♣ 9♠ A♥ A♣ ("nines full")
  • K♠ K♣ K♥ 3♦ 3♠ defeats 10♠ 10♥ 10♦ 4♠ 4♦
  • Q♥ Q♦ Q♣ 8♥ 8♣ ("queens full of eights" or "full house, queens over eights") defeats Q♥ Q♦ Q♣ 5♠ 5♥ ("queens full of fives")

Some poker games are played with a deck that has been stripped of certain cards, usually low-ranking ones. For example, the Australian game of Manila[?] uses a 32-card deck in which all cards below the rank of 7 are removed, and Mexican stud[?] removes the 8s, 9s, and 10s. In both of these games, a flush ranks above a full house, because having fewer cards of each suit available makes flushes rarer.

See also : Poker



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