Department of Computer ScienceBrendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and EngineeringUniversity of Maryland8125 Paint Branch Drive College Park, MD 20742main phone: (301) 405-2662 What happens if you have the same hand in poker? If two or more players have the same hand, the high card determines the winner. For straights or flushes, the highest top card is declared the winner. For one pair and two pair hands, the highest kicker wins. If players have the same 5-card hand, it is a tie, and the pot is split equally. Remember: A Straight hand is the name given to any 5 card hand featuring sequential cards. Since there are strong Straights and weak Straights, the strength of your straight hand determines how you fare against other players. When it comes to the subject of poker, Hoyle refers to it as “Bluff,” and in the play live three card poker online 1876 edition, it merits just two pages. The only mention of poker is Twenty-Deck Poker, which is “played with the Tens, Knaves (Jacks), Queens, Kings, and Aces only.” Nowhere else are there any other variations of the game of poker, such as stud, draw, hold ’em and so forth.