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Aces are the low card in the game. You are not the first person to say this! I need to look at the math again to make them high cards... However in my opinion

Aces are the low card in the game. You are not the first person to say this! I need to look at the math again to make them high cards... However in my opinion (at risk of getting everyones ire) - I think the ace is the "1" card.

InitialLastName 3y ago
... That's not how poker works though. I haven't had the luck to reproduce it, but is 10-J-Q-K-A also not recognized as a straight?
pixelbath 3y ago
So if aces are considered "1", how do you think a Royal Flush works? It wraps back around to 1?
1123581321 3y ago
Ace needs to act like 14 for Jacks or higher purposes, and both 1 and 14 for straights. Very cool and nostalgic app. I remember playing this for hours on my great-uncle's little pocket game.
euroderf 3y ago
After it's fixed you can add an option for "around the corner" straights, which count an ace both ways and wrap. For example: Q-K-A-2-3
chriscjcj 3y ago
This has me very curious. What lead you to believe that an Ace is a low card in poker?
- bagels 3y ago
  Because it is in an A-5 straight
  - hunter2_ 3y ago
    It's also in a 10-A straight though (generally; I'm not referring to this particular implementation). It also wins in poker hands that come down to simple high card, highest pair, etc. Essentially, the A-5 straight is the outlier where A behaves abnormally.
  - 1-more 3y ago
    but royal flushes exist in this game. A royal flush is T-J-Q-K-A
  - chriscjcj 3y ago
    Perhaps I should have been more specific with how my question was worded. What leads OP to believe that an Ace is _exclusively_ the lowest value card?
mrzool 3y ago
> However in my opinion (at risk of getting everyones ire) - I think the ace is the "1" card. Except that poker is an established game with clear rules where the ace is the highest card?