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Four of a kind, also called quads, is a poker hand with four cards of the same number or rank and one card of a different number or rank (known as the kicker). A kicker, sometimes called a side card, is a card or multiple cards in a poker hand that don’t count towards the hand’s rank. They are only used to decide who wins when two players have the same hand. For example, if two players both have a pair of Kings (K-K) but one has a Q-10-2 and the other has a 9-8-7 as their remaining cards (kicker), the player having the Q-10-2 wins because their Q is a better kicker.