Poker Hands:
"What Beats What Again?"

How annoying is it to be having a poker game with your friends, everyone's got a stogie hanging out of their mouth and they're real serious looking, and you're the poor schmuck with the "Rules to Draw and Stud Poker" card sitting on the table in front of you? Yeah, exactly. Well, you can throw that card out, my friend, because we're about to enhance your poker game right now. Below are the various poker hands ranked from lowest to highest.

		Low Hand (ie. Ace High) Basically a hand with nothing more going for it than its highest card, called the Kicker.
		Pair Two of the same card.
		2 Pair A hand made of a pair of one rank and another pair of another rank.
		3 of a Kind Three cards of the same rank. (AKA "Trips," or sometimes a "set")
		Straight 5 consecutive cards, such as 10, Jack, Queen, King, Ace. In the case of there being more than one player at the table with a straight, the straight to the higher card wins the pot.
		Flush 5 cards, non-consecutive, but all of the same suit.
		Full House A 3 of a kind and a pair in the same hand.
		Four of a Kind Four cards of the same rank. (AKA "Quads")
		Straight Flush 5 consecutive cards (ie., 789TJ), all of the same suit.
		Royal Flush The highest possible poker hand; a straight from 10 to Ace, all of the same suit. (AKA "Royal Straight Flush," "Royal," "Holy Crap!")

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