• The United Kingdom and poker-related taxes. UK-based players haven’t had to pay any consumer taxes on online poker throughout the poker boom, an era which started back when Chris Moneymaker won his WSOP bracelet in 2003. What’s more, players don’t have to pay them to this day.
• Although there are many different variants of poker which you will learn in our poker games section, the majority of games use one of two lists of hand rankings. High Poker Hand Ranking – this is the most common and is used in the most popular poker games such as Texas Holdem, Omaha and Stud.
• Poker Hand Rankings. How to Play Poker. Buttons & Blinds. Poker hands from highest to lowest 1. Royal flush A, K, Q, J, 10, all the.

Official Poker Rankings (OPR) is the online poker ratings site with tournament poker results, poker statistics and poker rankings for online poker players. Although there are many different variants of poker which you will learn in our poker games section, the majority of games use one of two lists of hand rankings. High Poker Hand Ranking – this is the most common and is used in the most popular poker games such as Texas Holdem, Omaha and Stud.

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What beats what in Poker?

Need a reminder of the rankings in an easy to print format? Click the image below to get a printable poker hand rankings chart pdf (opens in new tab).

Poker Hand Rank #1 - Royal Flush

The highest of all Poker hands, a Royal Flush is 10, J, Q, K, A of the same suit:

Poker Hand Rank #2 - Straight Flush

A Straight Flush is five cards in consecutive numerical order, all of the same suit.
If there are two Straight Flushes at the same table, the one which runs to the highest value card wins.

Poker Hand Rank #3 - Four of a kind

Four of a kind means four cards of the same value and any other card.
If there are two hands with Four of a kind in the same game, the highest ranking Four of a kind wins i.e. four Ks beats four 9s.

Poker Hand Rank #4 - Full house

A Full House is three cards of the same value and another two cards that form a pair (same value).
If two players have a Full House (with the joker), the rank is decided first by the Three of a kind, then by the pair.

Poker Hand Rank #5 - Flush

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A Flush is five non-consecutive cards of the same suit.
The Flush is named after the highest card, so the example below is a Jack Flush.
If two players have the same Flush, the rank is decided by the second highest card. In the unlikely event of the first two cards in two Flushes being the same, the rank is decided by the third card, then the fourth, then the fifth.

Poker Hand Rank #6 - Straight

A Straight is five consecutive cards, but not of the same suit.
As with the Straight Flush, in the event of a tie, the winner is the flush which runs to the highest value card.
A 'Straight to'means the highest card in the run, so 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 is a 'Straight to 9'

Poker Hand Rank #7 - Three of a kind

Three cards of the same value, and two supporting cards that are not a pair:

Poker Hand Rank #8 - Two pair

Two sets of pairs, and another random card.
In the unlikely event of two players having the same two pairs, the highest supporting card is used to determine the winner.

Poker Hand Rank #9 - Pair

Two cards of the same value and three random supporting cards.
If two players have a pair, the highest pair wins. In the event of a tie, the highest supporting cards determine the winner.

Poker Hand Rank #10 - High card

A hand with none of the above rankings.
The hand is named after the highest card, 7 high being the lowest, Ace high the highest. The example below is therefore a King high.

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The UK & Ireland online poker rankings, provided by PocketFives.com, are up-to-date and it is still Conor “1_conor_b_1” Beresford who is far out in front in the United Kingdom, but Ireland has a brand new entry and they’ve gone straight into the number one spot.

Beresford is still 2,200 points ahead of Patrick “pleno1” Leonard in the UK’s rankings. Beresford seems to be putting in plenty of volume while running hot, which is a deadly combination.

Last week, Beresford finished second in a $5,200 6-Max PKO High Rollers event at PokerStars for more than $70,000. He also won the $1,050 Wednesday High Roller for an additional $21,053. This pair of results comes only a week after Beresford padded his bankroll with scores of $239,652 and $378,205.

Leonard is doing everything in his power to reel in Beresford. The partypoker ambassador won sums of $14,247, $14,082 and $23,716 last week. Sandwiched between those impressive scores was a $180,982 prize, his reward for second-place in a $10,300 NLHE 8-Max event at PokerStars.

Tyler “Wonderboy222” Goatcher is another man in scintillating form. Goatcher has already a trio of partypoker POWERFEST events at partypoker but his latest big scores came at PokerStars. The Brighton-based grinder collected $15,122 for hs runner-up exit from the $530 Daily Supersonic before winning the $1,050 Daily Warm-Up for $25,864, also at PokerStars.

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“B4NKR0LL3R” helped themselves to the $28,636 third-place prize of a $1,050 Sunday Warm-Up to hold onto fifth-place in the rankings.

A massive $107,480 went to Sam “SamSquid” Grafton after he finished third in a $5,200 NLHE 8-max High Roller in the PokerStars Turbo Series. This pushed Grafton to eighth in the UK and 62nd in the world, not a massive distance away from the 40th in the world rank he enjoyed in 2013.

The $1,050 buy-in High Roller tournaments at PokerStars are proving happy hunting grounds for British players. Not only did some of the aforementioned players finish in the top three places, Ben “jenbizzle” Jones took one down for $28,776.

UK-based Italian Mustapha “lasagnaaammm” Kanit also triumphed in two of these tournaments. The first won Kanit $49,610 with the other’s top prize weighing in at $23,897.

Lastly, a couple of shoutouts for Henri “Buehlero” Buehler and Jareth “jareath3542” East who have been tearing things up at GGPoker.

Buehler finished first, second, and third in a trio of Zodiac Main Events and High Rollers for the equivalent of $33,462, $13,724, and $10,065. East finished second in a GGSeries event for $16,916 and fourth in another for an additional $9,421.

United Kingdom Online Poker Rankings (April 23, 2020)

fastfingers Climbs To Top Spot

Ireland has a new number one with top spot now occupied by “fastfingers”. Known as “janiszeib” at PokerStars, fastfingers has more than $680,000 in winnings, with a biggest-ever cash of $46,000. That prize came as a result of a third-place finish in the 888pokerXL Blizzard Main Event in February 2020.

More recently, fastfingers reeled in a $7,365 score for finishing third in a Winamax W Series Event.

Ronan “Sw33ney” Sweeney dropped to second-place in the Emerald Isle and now trails the leader by approximately 140 points. Sweeney kept tabs on fastfingers with a third-place finish in a PokerStars $109 Sunday Starter worth $2,343.

Sven “SvenCalls” McDermott looks to be returning to form judging by his latest run of deep finishes. He won a $27 NLHE PKO at PokerStars for more than $1,500, came fifth in the Big $215 for $1,823 and banked more than $2,000 for a fourth-place finish in a $162 Bounty Builder tournament.

McDermott also finished second in the Winamax GO FAST for $3,333. Throw into the mix a $1,265 prize at GGPoker and another $4,000 at PokerStars and you can see why McDermott has a reputation for being an excellent tournament grinder.

Former Irish number one Sean “monkeybudgie” Prendiville padded his bankroll with $27,606 when he finished third in the PokerStars $530 NLHE 8-Max Turbo Series event. He also won a $109 NLHE Deep Stacks Turbo Series event for $23,010 but that result came too late to make it onto the latest rankings update.

We also have to mention Conor “ccoonnoorr” O’Driscoll’s deep run in the $2.5 million guaranteed Sunday Million worth $3,444 and his runner-up finish in the PokerStars Bigger $22 that came in at $7,787.

Also to Kamal “AceOfShamrocks” Singh who was the Big $55 runner-up for $3,687.

Ireland Online Poker Rankings (April 23, 2020)

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