Why knowing your hands matterĮven though you can, in some cases, bluff your way to victory in poker, getting a strong hand is still the surest, most straightforward way to win a game. The rarer a hand is, the harder it is to beat. Each hand’s strength is determined by how difficult it is for players to come across it. There are a total of 10 different hands in standard five-card games of poker like Texas Holdem.
