Poker card value by suit I
In poker games, value of cards are based on the rank of cards which in ascending order is 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, jack, queen and king with the ace card can either have the value one or a higher rank than king. Sometimes, when cards have the same rank and get tied, then the suits of the cards are used to determine the high and low cards, the four suits being spades, clubs, diamonds and hearts.
Interestingly, most poker games do not assign any rank to the suits and the value of an ace of spades and an ace of clubs are equal. However, in order to decide which of the players will be the dealer, when each player have received a card and there is tie regarding the rank of cards, then to solve the issue, a random hierarchy of suit has been assigned. It must be remembered that there is no standard rule universally followed in all poker games to determine the rank of suits. Moreover, even when a particular poker variant is being played, the ranking vary from country to country so that the rule followed in the games played in the United States will be different than in games played in France.
The two commonest way of ranking the suit of cards is by using alternate colors. So, the ascending order of suit hierarchy would be diamonds, clubs, hearts and spades and this card value by suit is also used in Chinese card games like the Choi Dai Di. Another way of assigning a value to the suits is using the alphabetic order. So, now the clubs becomes the lowest suit and the spades still remain the highest suit. In this way the diamonds becomes higher than clubs but lower than hearts which in turn is lower than the spades. This way of ranking is also used in bridge games.
