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Boosted Poker

Poker Rules & Hand Rankings

Boosted Poker uses standard No-Limit Texas Hold'em rules, with power-ups and table modifiers layered on top. This page is your reference for hand rankings, betting actions, and how showdown works.

Hand Rankings (best to worst)

Royal Flush — A, K, Q, J, 10, all the same suit.
Straight Flush — Five consecutive cards of the same suit.
Four of a Kind — Four cards of the same rank.
Full House — Three of a kind plus a pair.
Flush — Five cards of the same suit, any ranks.
Straight — Five consecutive cards, any suits (A can be low or high).
Three of a Kind — Three cards of the same rank.
Two Pair — Two different pairs.
One Pair — Two cards of the same rank.
High Card — No combination; the highest card plays.

Some table modifiers change which hands are possible — for example, Four-Card Flush counts four same-suit cards as a flush, and Five of a Kind adds a new top-ranked hand when the deck is altered.

Betting Actions

Fold — discard your hand and forfeit the pot.
Check — pass the action without betting (only if no one has bet).
Call — match the current bet.
Bet / Raise — put more chips in. Raises must be at least the size of the previous raise (no-limit means the max is your whole stack).
All-in — push all your chips in. If someone goes all-in for less than the current bet, a side pot is created.

Blinds

Before cards are dealt, the two players left of the dealer post forced bets: the small blind and big blind. These rotate clockwise each hand. In Boosted Poker tournaments, blinds escalate on a timer so games don't drag on.

Showdown

When the final betting round ends with two or more players remaining, everyone reveals their hole cards. Each player's best 5-card hand (using any combination of their 2 hole cards and the 5 community cards) is compared; the best hand wins the pot. If hands tie, the pot is split.

Side Pots