Does four of a kind beat a full house?
Yes. Four of a kind beats a full house in poker — every time. In the ranking of 10 hand categories, four of a kind is #3 and full house is #4. Categories are compared first: even quad deuces beats aces full of kings — the category always decides first.
Four cards of the same rank ("quads").
Three of a kind plus a pair.
How rare is each hand?
Rarity is exactly why the order is what it is. Out of 2,598,960 possible five-card hands, four of a kind shows up in 0.024% of them (624 combinations), while a full house appears in 0.144% (3,744 combinations). The harder a hand is to make, the higher it ranks.
Does a full house ever beat four of a kind?
No — never. The category comparison is absolute: the highest possible full house still loses to the lowest possible four of a kind. Ranks inside a category only matter when both players hold the same category.
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