When it comes to poker hands, most poker player would know instantly the top three poker hands based on the relative strength of each hand. Four of a kind, a hand with four cards of the same rank with an additional kicker, is the third strongest poker hand combination. You can be quite sure about a win if you are getting four of a kind early, possibly before or just after the turn, and you can play it accordingly to win a huge pot. The second strongest poker hand is the Straight Flush; it is a combination of a Straight, where cards of sequential ranks are lined up together, and a Flush, meaning the Straight will all be same-suited. Last but not least, we have the strongest possible poker hand: the Royal Flush. It is an Ace high Straight Flush of A-K-Q-J-10 producing the strongest possible hand in the game of poker.