77JILI Poker Hands — Ranked From Royal Flush to High Card

Every 5-card poker hand belongs to one of ten fixed tiers, and that order never changes between a card table, a video poker screen or a home game. Learning poker hands once means reading any of them the same way: which tier beats which, how a tie inside the same tier gets broken, and where an ace behaves differently from every other card. This page ranks all ten from strongest to weakest, with a worked example for each, before it gets into tie-breaks and kickers in detail.

The 10 Poker Hands, Ranked From Strongest to Weakest

Rarity sets the order. A hand that is harder to draw from a 52-card deck sits above one that is easier, and that single rule produces the same ten-tier list everywhere poker hands are dealt.

Rank	Hand	Example	What makes it
1	Royal flush	A-K-Q-J-10, one suit	The top five cards of a single suit in sequence
2	Straight flush	9-8-7-6-5, one suit	Five sequential cards, all one suit, below ace-high
3	Four of a kind	7-7-7-7-K	Four cards of the same rank plus any fifth card
4	Full house	J-J-J-4-4	Three of a kind plus a separate pair
5	Flush	K-9-7-4-2, one suit	Five cards of one suit, not in sequence
6	Straight	10-9-8-7-6, mixed suits	Five sequential cards across more than one suit
7	Three of a kind	8-8-8-K-2	Three cards of the same rank plus two unmatched cards
8	Two pair	Q-Q-6-6-9	Two separate pairs plus one unmatched card
9	One pair	10-10-8-5-3	One pair plus three unmatched cards
10	High card	A-J-9-6-2, mixed	No pair, no sequence, no shared suit; ranked by the highest single card

A royal flush is a straight flush that happens to run ace-high; it is listed on its own because it is the one combination that cannot be beaten within its own tier. The same ten-tier order decides a dealt hand at 77JILI’s video poker titles and a hand held against the dealer in 77JILI’s casino holdem — neither game invents its own ranking.

Poker Hand Rankings: Why Suits Never Break a Tie

Poker hand rankings treat every suit as equal. Clubs, diamonds, hearts and spades carry the same weight in the ranking table above, so a flush in spades beats a straight in any suit, but a flush in spades does not beat an identical flush in hearts — that comparison moves straight to card rank instead.

1. Compare the hand tier first (flush versus straight, full house versus flush, and so on).
2. If both hands share a tier, compare card ranks inside the hand, highest card first.
3. If every card rank matches exactly, the pot is split; suit is never the deciding factor in standard poker hand rankings.

How Ties Are Broken: Kickers and Rank

A kicker is the unmatched card that decides a hand once the paired or tripled portion is identical between two players. Two players holding one pair of jacks do not tie automatically — the three remaining cards in each hand are compared next, highest to lowest, until one side pulls ahead.

Poker Card Ranking From Ace to Two

Poker card ranking inside a single suit runs ace at the top, then king, queen, jack, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2. That order decides high-card comparisons, kicker fights and which straight beats which.

1. Ace is high in every straight except the wheel (ace-2-3-4-5), where it plays as the lowest card instead.
2. A king-high straight (K-Q-J-10-9) beats a queen-high straight (Q-J-10-9-8), because the king outranks the queen at the top of the sequence.
3. The wheel is the one hand where an ace counts as a 1, which makes it the lowest-ranked straight on the board rather than the highest.
4. Card rank inside a suit never affects which suit wins, because standard poker hand rankings do not rank suits against each other at all.

Poker Hands Next to Blackjack and Other Table Games

Poker hands are not the only fixed ranking system at a card table. 77JILI’s blackjack online page covers a different kind of hand entirely — a running point total against a dealer rather than a five-card comparison against other players — and the two systems are worth telling apart before sitting at either table. For the wider picture of how card and table games sit inside Philippine gaming rules, gambling in the Philippines sets out who regulates what.

Table and card games are not a single studio’s product. JILI’s own catalogue lists table and card games alongside slots and fishing games, and CQ9 Gaming’s specialisms list names table games too, so a poker-style ranking can turn up under more than one studio filter in the same lobby.

Paano Maglaro ng Poker: Reading Your Hand at the Table

Paano maglaro ng poker starts with knowing where your five cards sit on the ten-tier list above, before any betting decision gets made.

1. Sort your hand by rank first, then check for a matching suit across all five cards.
2. Identify the highest tier your hand qualifies for — a hand can look like one pair and a flush at once, and only the higher tier counts.
3. If you are comparing against a visible dealer or opponent hand, work through the tie-break order: tier, then rank inside the tier, then kicker.
4. Kapag magkatabi ang dalawang hand sa parehong tier, ang susunod na hakbang ay ihambing ang bawat card mula sa pinakamataas — hindi random.

Checking Poker Hands and Rankings Yourself

Nothing above needs to be taken on faith, and the fastest way to confirm any of it is against the game screen itself.

1. Open 77JILI’s game providers section and filter by studio to see which table and card titles are live.
2. Open a specific title’s info screen before playing to see how it displays a completed hand and its rank.
3. Cross-check any ranking question against the ten-tier table at the top of this page — it does not change between titles or studios.
4. For a studio-specific look at what JILI or CQ9 Gaming actually publishes about their card-game catalogues, open JILI’s studio page or CQ9 Gaming’s studio page.

Unfamiliar wording inside a paytable or rules screen — kicker, wild, ways to win — is covered term by term in 77JILI’s casino terms glossary.