Poker/Full house2

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A poker hand such as 3c 3s 3d 6c 6h, which contains three matching cards of one rank, plus two matching cards of another rank. Also called a "boat" or "tight". Ranks above a /Flush and below /Four of a kind.

Between two full houses, the one with the higher ranking set of trips wins. If two have the same set of trips (possible in /Wild card and /Community card games), the hand with the higher pair wins.

Examples:

• 10s 10h 10d 4s 4d ("tens full") defeats 9h 9c 9s Ah Ac ("nines full")
• Ks Kc Kh 3d 3s defeats 10s 10h 10d 4s 4d
• Qh Qd Qc 8h 8c ("queens full of eights" or "full house, queens over eights") defeats Qh Qd Qc 5s 5h ("queens full of fives")

Some poker games are played with a deck that has been stripped of certain cards, usually low-ranking ones. For example, the Australian game of /Manila? uses a 32-card deck in which all cards below the rank of 7 are removed, and [/Mexican stud]? removes the 8s, 9s, and 10s. In both of these games, a flush ranks above a full house, because having fewer cards of each suit available makes flushes rarer.