What is a poker hand?

A poker hand is always a combination of five cards.

In Texas Hold'em every player receives two cards at the beginning of each round. During the course of the round, five additional cards are put on the table face up, the so called community cards.

A player can use the five community cards as well as his/her own two cards, for a total of seven, to build his/her hand. This is a combination of five out of the seven cards which are available to the player.

As long as there are a total of five cards, it does not matter how many of his/her own cards or community cards a player uses to build his/her hand.