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For these reasons, Badugi is an exception to the poker hand ranking rules laid out above. Everything from Texas Hold\u2019em to Draw poker, Stud, Omaha, and almost any other poker variant you can think of uses the poker hand rankings above. In the event of a tie, just check the table below – and remember, if hands are exactly\u00a0the same they will split the pot equally. The strongest poker hands are the ones that are hardest to make in terms of probability. Any five-card hand that doesn\u2019t qualify in any of the above categories is known as a high-card hand. When your two hole cards in Texas hold\u2019em make a pair, you hold a ‚pocket pair‘.<\/p>\n