Step 2 - How good is your hand?

And what are the best ranking hands we hear you ask! This is simple. The player who can put together the highest ranked five-card hand out of the seven cards (five community plus two hole) wins the pot. How this hand is put together doesn't matter. Whether four community cards and one hole card or both hole cards and three community cards make up the winning hand - is of no consequence. Sometimes the five community cards may make up the best hand. If this occurs, all the poker players share the pot.

What does not change is the fact that a hand always consists of five cards. If two players hold a pair of aces for example, the high card kicker will decide the winner.