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Full House
A full house is a poker hand consisting of 3 cards of one rank and 2 cards of another rank.
| Full House |
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| Jacks full of Threes |
A full house ranks above a flush but below a four-of-a-kind.
Ranking Full House Hands
When comparing full houses, the hand with the highest ranking 3-card set wins. If both hands have the same ranking sets of threes (a possibility in games with community cards), then the hand with the higher ranking pair wins.
Example #1
| Tens full of Deuces |
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| Defeats |
| Nines full of Aces |
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Example #2 (Community/Wild Card Games)
| Eights full of Jacks |
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| Defeats |
| Eights full of Tens |
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