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In playing cards, a suit is one of the categories into which the cards of a deck are divided. Most often, each card bears one of several pips (symbols) showing to which suit it belongs; the suit may alternatively or additionally be indicated by the color printed on the card.
For example, using the "alphabetical order" of suits, the ace of clubs ranks higher than any king, but lower than the ace of diamonds. High card by suit is used to break ties between poker hands as a regional variance, [ 1 ] but more commonly is used in the following situations, as well as various others, based upon the circumstances of the ...
A standard 52-card French-suited deck comprises 13 ranks in each of the four suits: clubs (♣), diamonds (♦), hearts (♥) and spades (♠). Each suit includes three court cards (face cards), King, Queen and Jack, with reversible (i.e. double headed) images. Each suit also includes ten numeral cards or pip cards, from one (Ace) to ten.
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The ace of clubs is a playing card in the standard 52-card deck. Ace of Clubs may also refer to: Ace of Clubs (comics), a DC Comics supervillain; Ace o' Clubs, a DC Comics bar owned by Bibbo Bibbowski; Ace of Clubs, a 1949 musical by Noël Coward; Ace of Clubs Records, a British record label owned by Decca Records
The following is a list of nicknames used for individual playing cards of the French-suited standard 52-card pack.Sometimes games require the revealing or announcement of cards, at which point appropriate nicknames may be used if allowed under the rules or local game culture.
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The remaining ten cards are called pip cards and are numbered from one to ten. (The "one" is almost always changed to "ace" and often is the highest card in many games, followed by the face cards.) Each pip card consists of an encoding in the top left-hand corner (and, because the card is also inverted upon itself, the lower right-hand corner ...