Full House
What makes a full house in poker?
A Full House is any three cards of the same
number or face 🤶 value, plus any other two cards of the same number or face value. An
example of a full house is 🤶 , but is a full house as well.
For you to be able to have a
full house in no-limit texas 🤶 hold'em poker, there always needs to be at least one pair
on the board. Since you only have 2 cards 🤶 in your hand, and you need to make
three-of-a-kind ánd a pair, there needs to be at least two of 🤶 the same value cards on
the table.
An Example of Full house:
The following five community cards are on the
table:
Phil Ivey 🤶 has in his hand, he now plays a full house. With the 2 cards his hand,
and the 5 on 🤶 the board, Ivey has 7 cards total to make the best combination of 5 cards.
Ivey doesn't use the eight 🤶 and the nine, and makes ; a full house.
Daniel Negreanu has
in his hand, also have a full house. Negreanu 🤶 doesn't use 2 of the cards and makes the
best combination of five cards. In this case, Negreanu uses to 🤶 make his full house.
The
best full house is the one with the highest three-of-a-kind. If you and your
opponent(s) have 🤶 the same three-of-a-kind, you'll look at who has the higher pair to go
along with it. The one with the 🤶 higher pair, than wins the hand. If you have the same
three-of-a-kind and pair, you split the pot.
In this example, 🤶 Negreanu with wins from
Ivey with . is higher than the of Ivey, and Negreanu wins the pot.
If you have 🤶 the full
house, you can call it "eights full of fours". In this expression, you always use the
three-of-a-kind first, 🤶 followed by the pair. Ivey, in this example, had "fours full of
jacks".
