In a game of poker, hand rankings are mostly the same except when you're playing the Omaha Hi/Lo variation which uses low hand ranking to win, yet it's still based on the traditional poker hands which ranks from highest to lowest.

Royal flush is the highest poker hand and is made up of an ace, king, queen, jack and ten in the same suit. All suits are considered equal so all royal flushes are equal and this is an unbeatable hand.

Straight flush consists of five cards of the same suit in sequence like J-10-9-8-7 in spades, with the hand containing the highest top card having the highest hand. An ace can be considered as a low card when its placed as 5-4-3-2-A all in hearts, with the 5 of hearts as the highest card.

Next high hand is the four of a kind. This hand consist of four cards of the same rank like four kings or four twos and the fifth can be any card called the kicker. When a tie occurs then the highest four set wins and based on the example above, the four of kings will beat the four of two but when (and this rarely happens) two hands have the same four of a kind, then the one with the highst kicker is higher.

Full house is made up of three cards of the same rank and then two cards of another same rank or a pair. For example, K-K-K-8-8, when there are two full house or more, the one with the highest three cards wins.

Flush is having five cards with the same suit and in a game where there are two flushes the highest card concludes which is higher such as, Q-10-9-6-4 of spades beats J-10-9-6-4 of hearts.

A straight hand is five cards of different suits but in sequence like Q of hearts- J of spades- 10 of diamonds- 9 of hearts and 8 of diamonds and the highest card in this case the queen will determine the higher card between two straights.

Three of a kind is a five card hand that is made up of three cards in the same rank plus any two cards. The one with the highest three card is considered higher if there is a tie.

Two pairs is two cards with the same rank, another two cards with the same rank different from the first one and a side card such as 10-10-5-5-K, if a tie occurs the one with the highest pair wins like in the example the highest pair is two 10s and when faced with 9-9-8-8-Q hand then the first hand wins.

A Pair consist of five cards with two cards of same rank and three unrelated cards and when compared with the same hand, the one with the highest two pair wins.

High card is a combination of any cards that don't match with any of the hands above and the hand with the highest card is the higher hand.