A Full House (full boat, boat) is a hand such as 3♣ 3♠ 3♦ 6♣ 6♥, which contains three matching cards of one rank, and two matching cards of another rank.
It ranks below a Four of a Kind and above a Flush.
Between two Full Houses, the one with the higher ranking set of three wins, so 7♠ 7♥ 7♦ 4♠ 4♣ defeats 6♠ 6♥ 6♦ A♠ A♣. If two hands have the same set of three, which is possible in wild card and community card games such as Texas hold'em, the hand with the higher pair wins; so 5♥ 5♦ 5♠ Q♥ Q♣ defeats 5♣ 5♦ 5♠ J♠ J♦.
A Full House is announced as "three full of pair" or occasionally "three over pair"; so Q♣ Q♦ Q♠ 9♥ 9♣ would be announced as "queens over nines", "queens full of nines", or simply "queens full". However, "queens over nines" is more commonly used to describe the hand Two Pair, one pair of queens and one pair of nines, as in Q♠ Q♥ 9♣ 9♠ J♦.
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