The highest-ranking hand in poker is called a royal flush. This is a set of five cards of the same suit, either high or low. Aces can be high or low, but they cannot wrap around a set of five identical cards. Similarly, a straight flush is a set of five consecutive cards of the same suit. Other possible hands include straights, and four of a kind. All of these are good hands, but only certain ones can be called royal flushes.

The ante is a player’s initial bet, and the dealer is the one who deals the cards. Players take turns opening and betting, and pass the button clockwise after each hand. In live poker, a player’s turn to shuffle the cards passes to the player to their left. A player who is the dealer must offer the shuffled pack to his or her opponent, who has the right to make a cut.

In five-card poker, two players with identical hands are considered tied and split the pot. In this variant, suits do not have a relative ranking in Poker. When two players have identical pairs, the next card is used to determine the winner. In the same manner, five-card poker only applies to pairs with the same rank. In addition, there are no ranks in Poker for the different cards, and the highest-ranking card determines the winner.