The hand comparison desk
Sample result: the ace pair leads
For the cards shown above, aces compare above kings before the kicker is considered. Choose the button to inspect your own sample.
Read the card notation
Use A, K, Q, J, 10 through 2 for ranks, followed by s, h, d or c for spades, hearts, diamonds or clubs. For example, Ah Kd Qc represents ace of hearts, king of diamonds and queen of clubs. Spaces or commas separate the three cards.
Use six distinct physical cards across the two hands. The tool first classifies each hand, then compares categories and their deciding ranks.
Choose the rule before comparing
The default puts A-K-Q first, A-2-3 second and K-Q-J next. Select the highest or lowest A-2-3 option to explore those declared conventions. The six-category order stays trail, pure sequence, sequence, color, pair and high card.
Suits identify a color or pure sequence. Equal ranks produce an equal-ranked result here; the selected table’s show or sideshow procedure supplies the next step.
A worked example
Enter Ah Ad Kc and Kh Kd Qc. Both hands form a pair. The aces lead the kings because the paired rank decides before the kicker. The result explains that order rather than treating the largest spare card as the first comparison.
Now try Qs Qh 8d and Qd Qc 6s. The queen pairs match, so the eight kicker leads the six. Changing one condition at a time makes the comparison easier to learn.
What this tool evaluates
The calculation covers literal three-card standard hands in your browser. Joker substitutions, Muflis objectives and mode-specific action rules use their own guide references. Our probability page documents the same standard-deck category model, with all 22,100 combinations counted.