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In high low games, the person with the high hand is awarded half of the pot and with the lowest qualified hands is awarded the remaining half. Many people, when considering high low games, assume that the lowest hand wins. Five cards in a hand with numbers equal to or less than 8. The lower the series of 5 cards are, the better the low hand is. 76532 qualifies as a low. Between 76532 low vs. A low of 87652, the card with the lowest low cards wins the low side of the pot.

High Card is the worst possible hand on the poker hand rankings list. It consists of no pair or any other hand type – just a high card.

The words “High Card” should have you thinking straight away about a hand with the highest card. However, this is the lowest possible hand in Texas Hold’em.

Starting Hands like K♣10♠ on a board 8♥7♥4♦J♣2♣ are referred to as “King High” rather than no pair.

Even though you don’t have a pair, it is still important to rank these hands for the system to work. In effect, a king-high hand would beat a queen-high hand. Queen-high beats jack-high and so forth.

As is the case in all Hold’em games, you can “play the board”. Say the board comes down A♣6♦5♥10♠7♥ and you hold 3♠2♠. Your hand would be called Ace-High using all the cards on the board.

When rating one High Card hand against the next, it’s the hand rank or denomination that’s important. Therefore, the best High Card hand is Ace-High, the second King-High, the third Queen-High and so on.

Kickers are a distinguishing factor when players have the same high card.

We’ll discuss this in the next section.

How Does a High Card Hand Rank?

In a 52-card deck, there are 1,302,540 possible High Card hand combinations and 1,277 distinct ranks of High Card hands. Each High Card is ranked first by its highest card, secondly by its highest-ranked kicker and so forth.

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Here are a few more examples of High Card hands:

A♠K♣ Q♥10♦8♠

K♠Q♦J♣9♥6♥

A♠K♦Q♣J♥16♥

A♠K♣ Q♥10♦9♠

K♦Q♣10♥9♣5♥

Can you tell which High Card hand ranks the best?

Keep in mind that the suits are irrelevant and that the kickers should be used to rank hands with the High Card.

How Does a High Card Hand Match Up?

High Card is the ninth best possible hand in the poker hand ranking system – putting it in last place. One pair ranks directly above it, with the best One Pair being Aces.

There are no hands that rank below High Card. Therefore, it is the worst hand according to the standard poker hand ranking system. It rarely wins at showdown unless someone’s making a superb bluff.

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High Card Poker Probabilities

Now, we’ll look at the pre-flop, flop, turn and river probabilities of making a High Card hand in both Hold’em and Pot Limit Omaha.

Visit our high card odds article for more information.

Now that you’ve got High Card down pat, it’s time to hit the tables! Good luck!

In traditional poker games, the player with the best traditional hand wins the whole pot. Lowball variations award the pot to the lowest hand, by any of several methods (see Low hand (poker)). High-low split games are those in which the pot is divided between the player with the best traditional hand (called the high hand) and the player with the low hand.^[1]

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There are two common methods for playing high-low split games, called declaration and cards speak. In a declaration game, each player declares (either verbally or using markers such as chips) whether he wishes to contest for the high hand or the low hand. The lowest hand among those who declared low wins that half of the pot, and the highest hand among those who declared high wins that half (for further details, see declaration). In a cards speak game, all players simply reveal their cards at showdown and the hands are evaluated by all players; high hand wins half of the pot and low hand wins the other half.

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Especially when using the ace-to-five low method, it is possible for one player to have both the low hand and the high hand, and therefore win all of the pot (called 'scooping,' 'hogging' the pot, or 'going pig'). In the event more than one player ties for either high or low, the pot can be further split into quarters or smaller fractions. For example, if one player has the high hand on showdown, and two other players tie for the best low hand, the high hand wins half of the pot and each low hand wins only a quarter of the pot.

It is common, especially in cards speak games, to require a certain hand value or better to win the low half of the pot, called a qualifier. For example in an 'eight or better to qualify low' game, a player with a hand of eight-high or lower is entitled to win the low half of the pot (assuming his hand defeats all other low hands), but a player with a 10-high or 9-high hand cannot win, even if his hand is the lowest. In this case, the high hand wins the entire pot. There is generally no qualifier to win high, although one common variant is any pair/no pair, where a hand of at least a pair is required to win high and any hand with no pair is required to win low.

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In high-low split games where each player is dealt more than five cards, each player chooses five of his cards to play as his high hand, and/or five of his cards to play as his low hand. The sets may overlap: for example, in seven-card stud played high-low split, a player dealt 7-7-6-4-4-3-2 can play a high hand of 7-7-4-4-6 (two pair, sevens and fours) and a low hand of 7-6-4-3-2 (seven-high).

Bluffs can be especially powerful in high-low split games, because a player making a successful bluff wins the whole pot rather than having to share it. This fact also makes bluffs less likely to succeed.

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1. ^Zee, Ray (1992). High-Low-Split Poker, Seven-Card Stud and Omaha Eight-or-better for Advanced Players. Two Plus Two Pub.; 2nd edition, ISBN9781880685105^{[page needed]}