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The lowest holding in a five card poker hand is when there are five cards all of different rank, which do not all share the same suit and do not form a 5 card sequence. In the event that no player makes a pair or better in a given poker hand, the player with the highest high card would win the pot, with the hands compared high card by high card until one hand has a better ranking than the other. Two players with the same high card sequence for all five cards would tie.

A high card hand is referred to by the highest card in the group, such as ‘Queen high’ or ‘Ace King high.’

The lowest possible hand in poker, then, is 7 5 4 3 2, as combinations lower would form a straight.

The probability of being dealt no pair in a five card poker hand is 50.12%, which therein establishes that it is almost coin flip for any two cards to improve by the end of a full hand.

Nicknames for having only a high card at showdown might be ‘no pair,’ ‘air,’ ‘junk,’ ‘crap,’ ‘I missed,’ and ‘whoops.’ Often bluffing becomes an alternative to having showdown a high card hand.

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