How To Play A Hand With Four Of A Kind When Playing Poker In Germany

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In all poker games, whether they are in gemany or another country, a hand with four of a kind is also called a quad. It means that you have four cards of the same rank from all four suits in the deck. The best hand of this nature is four Aces, followed by four kings, four Queens and so on. The weakest hand is four deuces. Although there are several other hands that can beat four cards of the same rank, it is a formidable hand to have even if you do have the lowest possible combination.

Poker hands that do beat a quad are:

- Royal Flush. There are only four possibilities of having this hand. It consists of Ace, King, Queen, Jack and ten all of the same suit. It is very rare for a player to get this hand and rarer still for more than one player to have the same hand in the same round. This is the highest hand and cannot be beat.

- Straight Flush. The second highest hand in poker is a straight consisting of any five cards in sequence in the same suit.

You only need four cards to make a winning German poker hand with a quad as opposed to needing five cards for the other high ranking poker hands. This ...
... means that you have a greater chance of getting this hand than any other. If you look at the size of the deck of cards, with 13 cards in every suit, your odds of getting four cards of the same rank are actually 1 in 4165. You have thirteen possibilities of getting four cards of the same rank.

When you receive your hole cards from the dealer and you have two cards of the same rank, you should stay in the betting until the flop. If you find that the flop reveals the other two cards you need to make a quad, then you are sitting pretty and can raise with confidence. The odds of your opponent getting the cards for either a straight flush or a Royal flush are very slim, so you can win the pot with the combination that you have. If only one of the cards you needs turns over on the flop, then you do have three of a kind. The fourth card could come up on the turn or the river. There is also the possibility that there may be a pair of cards in the community cards, so you would have a Full House, which is also a winning hand in poker, especially if your three of a kind is high.

Most professional German poker players do not bother to play any further if the hole cards are really low, even if they are a pair. This is because they are risking their money by placing a bet on cards that may not give them a chance at winning the pot. When you start out with a high pair, such as Aces, Kings, Queens, Jacks or tens, then you should keep playing because it is possible to win the pot just based on these two cards.

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