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🏆 Hand Rankings (Best → Worst)

1. High Card — The ultimate winner. Nothing fits together.
2. One Pair — Second best. Just two matching cards.
3. Two Pair
4. Three of a Kind
5. Straight — A-2-3-4-5 is the best straight; T-J-Q-K-A is the worst.
6. Flush
7. Full House
8. Four of a Kind
9. Straight Flush — Nearly unplayable. A-2-3-4-5 suited is the best of a bad situation.
10. Royal Flush — The single worst hand in existence. Congratulations — you've achieved something most players never will, and you're going to lose everything because of it.

🃏 The Game

• Heads-up (2 players) Texas Hold'em rules — but rankings are inverted.
• Hold'em mode: Each player gets 2 hole cards. Use any combination of hole cards and board to make your best 5-card hand.
• Omaha mode: Each player gets 4 hole cards. You must use exactly 2 of your hole cards and exactly 3 board cards.
• Five community cards are dealt (Flop, Turn, River).
• Best 5-card hand wins — but “best” means closest to High Card.
• Blinds start at 10 / 20. Starting stacks are 2,000.
• Match plays until one player runs out of chips.

🔢 Tiebreakers

• Within the same hand type, lower card values win.
• High card / Flush: lowest top card wins — 7-high beats Q-high, 2-high beats Ace-high.
• Pairs / Trips / Quads: lowest rank wins — pair of 2s beats pair of Aces.
• Straights: Ace plays low (as 1) — A-2-3-4-5 is the best straight because it's the lowest. T-J-Q-K-A is the worst.
• Outside of straights, Ace is always high (14) — so it's the worst card to have in your high-card hand or flush.

🎯 Strategy Tips

• Avoid connecting cards — straights and flushes hurt you.
• Mixed suits, non-sequential ranks are your best friends.
• Suited connectors (7♠8♠) are trash — fold them.
• Offsuit, disconnected cards (2♣ 9♦) are gold.
• The Hand panel bottom-right shows your current hand rank and percentile in real time.

⚡ Actions

• Fold — Give up the hand.
• Check — Pass action (when no bet to call).
• Call — Match the opponent's bet.
• Bet / Raise — Put more chips in. Use the size slider.
• All In — Bet your entire stack.