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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 (at risk of getting everyones ire) - I think the ace is the "1" card.

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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.

... 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?

So if aces are considered "1", how do you think a Royal Flush works? It wraps back around to 1?

This has me very curious. What lead you to believe that an Ace is a low card in poker?

Because it is in an A-5 straight

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?

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.

but royal flushes exist in this game. A royal flush is T-J-Q-K-A

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

> 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?

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