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A flush beats a straight. Five cards of one suit outrank five cards in sequence in every standard poker game — and this is the single most interesting ranking on the chart, because in Texas Hold'em the flush is actually the more common of the two. The ranking was fixed for five-card hands, where the flush is rarer, and it never changed when seven-card games took over.
Flush beats straight, with both hands shown side by side
The seven-card inversion: 3.03% flush against 4.62% straight
How two flushes and two straights are each settled
役の強さ
10役中 第5位
同じスート5枚
10役中 第6位
スートばらばらの連続5枚
フラッシュがストレートに勝ちます。役のランクが上なら、中身のカードが何であっても勝ちです。
This is the only place on the ranking chart where the number of cards you are drawing from reverses which hand is rarer. The ranking follows the five-card column.
Hand
Flush
Five-card odds
1 in 509
Seven-card frequency
3.03%
Rank
5th
Hand
Straight
Five-card odds
1 in 255
Seven-card frequency
4.62%
Rank
6th
Three spades and three cards inside a straight window. This is the board texture that produces the biggest pots in a home game, because two players can each hold a hand they are certain is good.
Board
Cards
K♠ 9♠ 6♠ 5♦ 2♣
Best five cards
—
Result
Three spades, three to a straight
Player A
Cards
8♦ 7♥
Best five cards
9♠ 8♦ 7♥ 6♠ 5♦
Result
Nine-high straight — second best
Player B
Cards
A♠ 4♠
Best five cards
A♠ K♠ 9♠ 6♠ 4♠
Result
Ace-high flush — wins the pot
Poker hand rankings were worked out for five-card hands, where a flush comes up once in every 509 hands and a straight once in every 255. The flush is twice as rare, so it ranks higher. Texas Hold'em gives you seven cards to build from, and that changes the arithmetic — but the ranking is a fixed convention and was never revised. The flush still wins.
With two extra cards to work with, suits cluster more easily than sequences do. Three cards of one suit on the board plus two in your hand is a common shape; five specific consecutive ranks is not. The result is 3.03% for flushes against 4.62% for straights — the flush becomes the more common hand while remaining the higher-ranked one. It is the only inversion on the chart and worth knowing precisely because it sounds wrong.
Three cards of the same suit on the board means a flush is possible. Three cards inside a five-rank window means a straight is possible. Boards that offer both are the ones that produce the biggest pots and the worst decisions, and the players who do well on them are the ones who name both threats out loud before betting.
Compare from the top card down. Ace-high beats king-high; if both are ace-high you compare the second card, and so on. Suits do not break ties in Hold'em, so five matching ranks split the pot. The practical consequence is that a small suited card is a poor hand to chase a flush with — you make your hand and still lose.
The higher end wins, and equal straights chop. The exception everyone learns the hard way is the wheel — A-2-3-4-5 is a real straight and the lowest one there is, because the ace plays low as well as high. Holding an ace does not guarantee you the better straight.
A full house, four of a kind, a straight flush and a royal flush beat both hands here. A full house is the practical one: it needs the board to pair, so on a paired board both the flush and the straight are considerably less safe than they look, and the player betting into you may not be bluffing at all.
A flush draw after the flop has nine cards to hit and comes in about 35% of the time by the river. An open-ended straight draw has eight and comes in about 32%. Those are close enough that the decision is usually about the price rather than the draw — which is what a pot odds calculator is for, and why the numbers matter more than the feeling that one draw is luckier than the other.
Flush-over-straight is a big pot with a rules question attached, and it happens at every home game eventually. A printed ranking sheet answers it in two seconds without anybody being corrected out loud, and digital chips mean the pot and the payouts are already recorded by the time anyone asks.
The straight and the flush are the two hands a coordinated board hands out at the same time, and each of them is strong enough to bet for value. That is why the pot gets big. The player with the straight is not making an obvious error by putting chips in; they are losing to the one hand above them on a board that made both hands available. Recognising that a board can produce two strong hands is more useful than memorising which of them wins.
FAQ
01
Yes, in every standard poker game — including a five-high flush against an ace-high straight.
02
The rankings were set for five-card hands, where a flush is twice as rare. Seven-card games reverse the frequencies but the ranking was never changed.
03
About 3.03% of seven-card hands, against 4.62% for a straight.
04
By the highest card, then the next, and so on. Suits never break ties in Hold'em; identical flushes split the pot.
05
Yes. It is called the wheel and it is the lowest straight, because the ace can play low as well as high.
06
A full house, four of a kind, a straight flush and a royal flush.
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