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A Pair (Poker)
A pair is the second best hand that can be hit in a game of poker and only better than the High Card. The board will determine the strength of your pair, for instance on the flop, in a game of Holdem, you can either hit bottom pair, middle pair of top pair. Top pair means that you have paired the highest card on the board and middle pair means you have paired the bottom card, and bottom pair, paired the bottom card.
In terms of how pairs stand up against each other, Ace is the highest pair that you can hit, then King, Queen and so on. Kickers also comes into play to determine a winner when more than one player has the same pair. For example, you hold A 
K 
and flop comes A 8 
5 and you opponent holds A 9 , the result is you both have a pair of aces. Where this happens, the kicker would come into play which would be the next highest card that each player holds. In this example you have an ace high with a King kicker and you opponent has a nine kicker so you would win the pot.
It is worth noting that the kicker does not have to come from the players hand. Should this next highest card be on the board, the player would use this.
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