Nodding in satisfaction, Mammon shifts one suit from highest to lowest. "Deuce is worth the least, and ace the highest. That's important to know when you're figuring out the ranking of your hand. Because one like this..."
Another shift of the cards into a full hand: clubs deuce, spade seven, clubs Queen, eight hearts, and spades deuce.
"For something like that, you can only hope the other person also has a hand full of nothing." Beneath the first hand, they arrange another one just as bad is it is. "And that your highest card is better than theirs. Better than this is a pair." A tap to the eight hearts makes it a Queen.
Patiently, they go up through everything- two pairs and how a kicker plays into it, trips, a straight where Ace can be low, a flush, a full house, quads, straight flush, and royal flush.
When they finish showing everything and explaining it all, Mammon leans back. "Easy enough to remember that, right?"
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Another shift of the cards into a full hand: clubs deuce, spade seven, clubs Queen, eight hearts, and spades deuce.
"For something like that, you can only hope the other person also has a hand full of nothing." Beneath the first hand, they arrange another one just as bad is it is. "And that your highest card is better than theirs. Better than this is a pair." A tap to the eight hearts makes it a Queen.
Patiently, they go up through everything- two pairs and how a kicker plays into it, trips, a straight where Ace can be low, a flush, a full house, quads, straight flush, and royal flush.
When they finish showing everything and explaining it all, Mammon leans back. "Easy enough to remember that, right?"