A Flush is made up of 5 cards all in the same suit. It comes in fourth place in the
🍉 poker hand rankings - below a full house. For example, A♥J♥7♥5♥2♥ is an ace-high flush
in hearts.
Although the word flush 🍉 doesn’t immediately have you thinking that it
consists of five cards all in the same suit, it’s still an easy 🍉 hand to recognise. A
flush is a relatively strong hand in Texas Hold’em with the highest possible flush
being ace-high 🍉 with all 5 cards in the same suit.
The best Flush possible is the
ace-high Flush:
A♠J♠10♠3♠2♠
When it comes to flushes, the 🍉 suits don’t matter. However,
not every ace-high flush is ranked equally. When it comes to rating one ace-high flush
over 🍉 the next, it’s the hand rank or denomination that’s important.
*Note that a
straight to the Ace in any suit, counts 🍉 as a Royal Flush and neither ranks better than
the other in the hand ranking system.
How Does a Flush Hand 🍉 Rank?
In a 52-card deck,
there are 5,108 possible Flush hand combinations and 1,277 distinct ranks of Flushes.
Each flush is 🍉 ranked by its highest card, then by the rank of its second-highest card
and so on.
Here are some examples of 🍉 a few
flushes:
A♠J♠10♠3♠2♠
K♥10♥7♥5♥2♥
A♣K♣Q♣8♣2♣
Q♦J♦10♦9♦3♦
Can you tell which Flush ranks
the best?
Keep in mind that the ranking of a Flush is determined 🍉 by the highest
straight card – not the suit. If more than one player has a Flush, then the winner 🍉 is
determined by the player with the highest straight. So, for example, a King-high Flush
– in any suit - 🍉 beats a Queen-high Flush – in any suit, and so forth.
Also, a
K-J-10-5-3 flush would beat a K-J-9-8-3 flush. Notice 🍉 that in the first hand the third
card 10 is higher than the 9 in the second hand. That’s what 🍉 makes it rank higher.
How
Does a Flush Hand Match Up?
A Flush is the fourth best possible hand in the poker 🍉 hand
ranking system. A Full House ranks directly above it. Although 4th on the list, it is
still a very 🍉 strong hand in Hold’em and is rarely beat on the river.
That said, there
are still quite a few hands that 🍉 rank under it. The next best hand down on the list is
called a Straight.
The best Straight is the ace-high 🍉 straight – also known as
“Broadway”.
Flush Poker Probabilities
Now, we’ll look at the pre-flop, flop, turn and
river probabilities of making 🍉 a Flush in both Hold’em and Pot Limit Omaha.
