In poker, the highest-ranking hand wins poker online. Poker players get five poker cards online.

An easy online poker game of 5-Card-Draw is a good place to start to learn the rules of playing online poker. To start, the online poker dealer gives each player five cards. To win a poker player must hold the winning poker hand, the highest-ranking poker hand.

Ranking order

Royal Flush - 5 cards with the highest value, Ace to ten and all of the cards are from the same suit. A Royal Flush always wins poker because a Royal Flush is the highest natural hand .

Straight Flush - 5 cards of the matching suit in nonstop numerical sequence (it doesn't matter which 5 consecutive numbers in poker), consists of five cards in sequence and of the same suit.

Four of a Kind - a hand that contains of four cards of the same numerical ranking. In online poker games, the hand with the highest rank of four-of-a-kind beats other four-of-a-kind hands.

Full House - 3 cards of the same value, plus another pair of a different value. When Wild Cards are used in online poker games, poker ties are ranked first by the
3-of-a-kind ranking, then the pair.

Flush - any 5 cards of the identical suit in any order.

Straight - 5 cards in a order of any suit). Aces can be counted as high or low.

Three of a Kind - 3 cards of the same numerical value. Three-of-a-Kind is just like a Four-of-a-kind poker hand, apart from that when the remaining two cards are a pair, it turns it into a Full House in poker games.

Two Pair - any two pairs of two cards. In online poker games, within each pair, the cards are of equivalent number value. For example, in a pair the cards are a 4 of Hearts (one pair) and a 4 of Spades and the second pair is 7 of Clubs and a 7 of Hearts.

Pair - any poker hand containing two cards of the same numerical value is a poker pair.

High Card - in the case of no other hands in the online poker game, the poker player with the highest card wins.

Basic Rules

1)  At the start of the Poker game in an online casino, the online poker players ante up.

2)  The online poker players place their bets in the poker pot.

3)  The online poker dealer distributes five cards one at a time to each poker player.

4)  Poker players look at their cards, and decide their Internet poker strategies and bets.

5)  Each and every online poker player can 'Call', 'Raise' or 'Fold'.

6)  To fold is drop out of the round of poker and not play poker.

7)  To call means the online poker player matches the bet by placing the same cash bet in the poker pot.

8)  To raise means matching the bet and adding an extra bet to the online poker pot.

9)  In poker, 'Pot' mean to raise the bet to the maximum (the poker bet is the same amount as the total money available in the pot).

10)  Players can swap up to a maximum of three cards from their hand.

11)  Players with an Ace swap up to four cards, on the condition that the online poker player shows the Ace to the other poker players in the online casino.

12)  Another round of betting begins. When there are no more raises, and all the cards have been dealt, the online poker round ends.

13)  The online poker players open their closed cards.