This means weaker full houses are not that strong in these situations and are more likely to be beat than full houses on only paired boards. When there is 3 of a kind in the community cards, any pair will make a full house. This can be done by having a higher pocket pair than the board pair, or a card with the same rank as the pair when this improves the hand. When the 5 cards on the board already make a full house, all players who get to showdown will chop unless they can use their hole cards to make a stronger full house or 4-of-a-kind. There are 4 possible ways to make a full house poker hand in Holdem: The probability of making a full house if you are dealt 5 random cards is 0.144% or around 1 in 700. The hand can be stated with the first part as the 3 of a kind then “full of” then the pair part, for example “Queens full of Tens” would refer to QQQTT. For example J♣J♦J♥4♣4♦ would win against 9♣9♦9♥7♣7♦ but both lose to J♣J♦J♥T♣T♦ When two or more players have full houses, the strength is first decided by the 3 of a kind part of the hand and if the same then by the pair. The following guide shows all the ways to achieve this.

another 2 cards of the same separate rank.

A full house beats a flush and full house beats a straight as well as all lower hands classes.

The full house poker hand is the 4th strongest hand category in poker, after 4 of a kind, straight flush and Royal flush.

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