How to Remember Winning Poker Hands and Their Rank

The best way to remember poker hands and their ranking, is to break them into 2 halves.

The first half is the low rankings.

High card 1 Pair 2 Pair 3 of a kind Straight

This part is pretty easy.

Basically it's 1, 2, 3, straight.

The straight is the straight line that divides the first half from the second half.

Visually it would look like this:

1 2 3 /

Representing 1 pair, 2 pair, 3 of a kind and Straight.

A straight is 5 cards in sequence.

How do you remember what a straight is?

A straight is a hand where all the cards are neighbors.

Next door neighbors to be exact.

Both straight and neighbors have an (IGH) in the middle.

Visually it would look like this.

straIGHt = neIGHbors

Back to the rankings

The cards in the second half are ranked as follows:

FLUSH FULL HOUSE FOUR OF A KIND STRAIGHT FLUSH ROYAL FLUSH