Basic guide to winning with the best poker hand rank
In rank order the poker hands below show the strongest hands to weakest. Always remember that the highest card wins in most cases and a flush involves five cards of the same suit and a straight is any five consecutively numbered cards.
This Wednesday one of the biggest bounty tournaments is happening at Doyles Room with the Legends, Doyle Brunson, Mike Caro, and Hoyt Corkins. Knock out all three and you can win $25,000 or $5,000 for knocking out two of them and $500 if you knock out any one of them. You can buy-in for just $27.50. Download Doyles Room Poker and receive 110% up to $550 bonus.
UltimateBet have enhanced their leaderboard system in order to create a more exciting and competitive gameplay environment. This Friday (1st August) the Sniper and Bounty leaderboard competition will come to an end along with the MTT and Sit N’Go leaderboards which end on Sunday 3rd of August. With the new system being put in place the Tour of Duty leaderboard will be put on hold but fear not the new system which is being launched in September offers larger prizes and greater chances of winning.
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The Beijing XXIX Olympic games is soon get underway, CarbonPoker have decided to do their own promotion during the month of August aptly named The CarbonPoker Olympics. Starting with a bronze medal your comp points will earn you instant cash prizes if you claim 10 bronze medals during August you will earn a silver medal getting you bigger cash rewards up to $700 with every 10 medals of the same status earned.
Popular online poker giant PokerStars have upped the ante by increasing the guaranteed prize pools on most of their guaranteed tournaments. PokerStars is now host to 483 guaranteed prize pool tournaments each week a rather large increase from the previously held 199 just last week, the overall guaranteed prize pool difference is from $7,5 million to over $13 million in guaranteed Tourneys.
