Poker Dealt Hand Tier List Maker (Free, No Sign Up) | Rank Every Starting Hand Your Way

I once watched a home game stall for ten minutes because two players couldn’t agree whether ace-jack suited was a “play it” hand or a “fold it” hand. Nobody was wrong. Poker hands just get ranked differently depending on how you play, yet most sites still hand you one fixed chart and expect you to accept it.

If you searched for a poker dealt hand tier list, you’re probably not looking for another static chart to memorize. You want to see poker hands laid out, drag them into your own order, and settle the argument (or start a new one) with something visual you can point to. That’s exactly what the free poker dealt hand tier list maker on this page does.

What Is a “Dealt Hand” in Poker? (Starting Hands vs. Made Hands)

A “dealt hand” refers to the cards you’re given before any community cards hit the table, your hole cards in Texas Hold’em, for example. This is different from a “made hand,” which is the best possible five-card combination you end up with after the flop, turn, and river.

People search both terms almost interchangeably, but they describe two different moments in a poker hand. Your dealt hand (like A♠ K♠) is what you start with and decide whether to play. Your made hand (like a flush or a full house) is what that starting hand can turn into by the end of the round. A tier list can rank either one: the two hole cards you’re dealt, or the ten categories of finished poker hands, from Royal Flush down to High Card. This page covers both, starting with the tool itself.

Try the Poker Dealt Hand Tier List Maker

The tier list template on this page comes preloaded with poker hands already added and ready to rank, no uploading images yourself, no account required for any part of the process. Drag hands straight from the pool into your tiers and you’re done in a couple of minutes.

How to Use This Template

Think of it the way you’d sort a deck by feel. Start by pulling your obvious S-tier hands, pocket aces, pocket kings, ace-king suited, into the top row first. Then work outward: strong pairs and big suited connectors next, speculative hands like suited connectors and small pairs in the middle, and the hands you’d fold from anywhere in the bottom tier. There’s no wrong order here since this is your ranking, not a scoreboard. Once every hand has a home, hit download to save it as an image or generate a link to share it.

Customize It However You Rank

The default S/A/B/C/D/F structure is a starting point, not a rule. You can add or remove tiers if you want more granularity between “strong” and “premium,” rename any tier label (swap “S” for “Always Play” if that fits how you actually talk about hands), and set a custom background and text color for each row. Tiers can be dragged up or down to reorder them, and the whole board resets in one click if you want to start over. If you want to mark up a hand image directly, drawing on it or adding a note, the Create button opens a full lightweight editor with pen, shape, text, and eraser tools, so you’re not limited to the images already in the template.

Poker Hand Rankings, From Best to Worst (Quick Reference)

Before ranking starting hands, it helps to have the finished hand hierarchy straight, since that’s what every starting hand is ultimately trying to build toward.

1. Royal Flush
2. Straight Flush
3. Four of a Kind
4. Full House
5. Flush
6. Straight
7. Three of a Kind
8. Two Pair
9. One Pair
10. High Card

This order holds for Texas Hold’em, Omaha, and most standard poker variants. A royal flush cannot be beaten. High card, five unconnected cards, is the weakest hand you can show down. Everything else sits somewhere in between, and the rarer the hand, the higher it ranks.

The Best (and Worst) Starting Hands to Rank First

If you’re ranking dealt hands rather than made hands, it helps to have a rough sense of where the extremes sit before you start dragging cards around. There are 1,326 possible two-card starting hand combinations in Texas Hold’em, but they collapse into 169 distinct hands once you account for suits, so a full tier list has more room than most “top 20” charts give it credit for.

Premium Hands

Pocket aces, pocket kings, pocket queens, and ace-king suited are the hands almost every player puts at the very top. These win outright more often than any other starting hand and rarely get folded preflop regardless of position.

Poker’s premium hands have picked up nicknames over the years, and they’re worth knowing since you’ll hear them at any table. Pocket aces are “pocket rockets.” Pocket kings are “cowboys.” Pocket queens are “the ladies.” Ace-king suited is “big slick.” None of that changes where the hands sit in a tier list, but it’s the kind of shorthand that makes ranking hands with friends feel less like a spreadsheet exercise and more like the game itself.

Strong and Speculative Hands

Mid pairs (nines through jacks), suited connectors like ten-nine suited, and hands like ace-queen or king-queen suited sit in the next band down. They don’t win as often outright, but they have real postflop potential, straights, flushes, well-disguised two pair, which is why plenty of players rank them higher than raw win percentage alone would suggest.

Weak Hands Most Players Rank at the Bottom

Unconnected, offsuit low cards like seven-two offsuit are the hands almost everyone agrees belong at the bottom. They rarely connect with the board and are folded in most situations outside of the big blind getting a free look.

Does Hand Strength Change by Position or Game Type?

A hand’s tier isn’t always fixed. Two things shift it: where you’re sitting at the table, and which poker variant you’re playing.

Early, Middle, and Late Position

Hands played from early position need to be tighter, since more players are still left to act behind you. The same hand that’s an easy fold under the gun can be a profitable raise from the button, where you act last and have more information. This is one reason some players build two separate tier lists, one for early position and one for late position, rather than a single fixed ranking.

Short Deck and Omaha: When Rankings Flip

In Short Deck (also called 6+ Hold’em), the 2s through 5s are removed from the deck, which makes flushes harder to make and full houses easier. As a result, a flush typically outranks a full house in Short Deck, the reverse of standard poker. Omaha keeps the same hand hierarchy as Hold’em, but hand strength shifts because players hold four hole cards instead of two and must use exactly two of them with three community cards. If you’re building a tier list for a specific variant, it’s worth relabeling your tiers to match that game rather than assuming your Hold’em rankings carry over directly.

Share, Compare, and React to Tier Lists

Once your ranking is finished, download isn’t the only option. Every completed tier list gets its own shareable link, and that link opens to a page with its own download button, social share buttons for platforms like Facebook, X, Reddit, and WhatsApp, emoji reactions so other viewers can react to your ranking, an embed code if you want to drop the interactive list into a blog post or forum thread, and a comment box so people can actually argue with your placements. If your home game or Discord server can’t agree on where suited connectors belong, this is the fastest way to settle it, or at least document the disagreement.

I’ve tried settling this with a screenshot before, and it never works, someone always claims it’s cropped or edited. A live link with a comment box removes that excuse, since everyone’s looking at the same board in real time.

There’s also a full-screen button on every template, which is genuinely useful if you’re passing a laptop around a table or presenting your ranking to a group rather than working through it alone on a small screen.

Common Poker Hand Questions

Does a flush beat a straight? Yes. A flush is statistically rarer than a straight, so it ranks higher in standard poker hand rankings, including Texas Hold’em.

Does a full house beat a flush? Yes, in standard games. A full house is less common than a flush and ranks above it, though this flips in Short Deck poker for the reasons explained above.

What is the best possible starting hand in poker? Pocket aces. It’s the strongest two-card combination you can be dealt and wins more often heads-up against any other single hand than any other starting hand.

What is considered the worst starting hand in poker? Seven-two offsuit is widely considered the weakest starting hand in Texas Hold’em, since the cards are both low value and unconnected, with no realistic path to a strong flush or straight.

Can two players tie with the same poker hand? Yes. If both players’ best five-card hands are identical in rank and value, most commonly when the winning hand is made entirely from the community cards, the pot is split evenly between them.

What’s the difference between a dealt hand and a made hand? A dealt hand is the starting cards you’re given before the flop. A made hand is the best five-card combination you end up with after all community cards are revealed. A tier list can rank either one.

Build Your Own Poker Hand Tier List Now

The honest reason charts alone don’t settle poker arguments is that everyone weighs risk, position, and playstyle a little differently, and a fixed list can’t account for that. A tier list can, because it’s yours to arrange.

That home game argument I opened with never got resolved that night, but weeks later I watched someone settle it with a tier list instead of more talking. Laying a ranking out, tier by tier, forces you to commit to an order, and that’s usually when you realize you agree more than you thought.

A fixed chart tells you one person’s opinion of poker hand rankings; a tier list lets you build and defend your own. To recap: use the quick reference above if you just need the ten-hand hierarchy, check the position and variant notes before you finalize a starting hand ranking, and once your tiers are set, download the image or generate a shareable link so others can react or comment. Start ranking with the poker dealt hand tier list maker at the top of this page, no account, no uploads, and no fixed answer key required.

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