The two way ace
September 3, 2009
The ace is really the most powerful card on the deck. Why is this so? Aside from being the highest card in the deck, the ace is also the card with the most number of combinations possible. What do I mean when I say that you can make the most possible combinations with an ace? First, think about the other cards and their combinations. From the cards two to ten and the face cards up to the king, you can make so many five card combinations like the straight, the flush, the straight flush, the royal flush, the full house, the pairs, and the triplets. Okay fine, you may think that these cards have the same combinations as the ace but if you think about it, the ace has so much more.
The ace can act as the highest card in a straight from a ten to the ace. On the other end of the spectrum, the ace can also act as the lowest card in a straight involving a five. I am sure that you know this but you may have failed to realize that the ace is a quasi wild card. You can use your ace as a highest card and you can also use your ace as the lowest card. At the end of the day, you can make two possible straights with an ace. You may now be thinking, what about the ten, or the nine, or the seven, aren’t you also able to make the highest and the lowest straight with these cards too? Yes, you are correct, you may also use your nine as the lowest card on a straight to the king or you can also use your nine as the highest card from a four to a nine. But if you think about it, the ace is the only card that can be a high when there is a face card involved. You can not use the jack as the low card in a straight. You can not use the queen card as the low card on a straight. Even more, you can not use the king as the low card on the straight. But the ace, that is a different story. You can use the ace as the highest card of all and you can use the ace as the lowest card of all. In this way, your ace has power packed potential when it is in your hands.
When you have the ace in your hands, you can be confident that you can dominate the table at anytime. When low cards come out like threes and fours, you can be confident that you can still make a straight anytime. When high cards come out like kings and queens, you can be confident that you can still make a high straight. On either road, you can be a winner. If you have the ace in your hand, never fear. The only thing you should worry about is someone else with an ace. Or worry about someone else with two aces.