What does spades mean in poker?

Spades (? Spade is one of the four colors of playing cards (spades, hearts, diamonds and clubs), and there are thirteen cards in a deck. A stands for the first card of all colors, and only one symbol representing that color is printed on this card. In most card games, including bridge, A is the highest level card, so A of spades is the biggest card in spades.

Another explanation is that the ace of spades stands for the best one.

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65438+At the beginning of the 8th century, English people all liked to play poker. The British government found this a good opportunity to collect taxes, so it imposed a "poker tax" on poker manufacturers. The collection method is interesting: Spades A are printed by the government and then sold to a manufacturer at a high price.

Of course, manufacturers are not fools, so they try their best to evade taxes and forge the government's "tax A".

Originally, the spade A used by the government for tax collection was as big as other aces. Later, in order to prevent fraud, it was only designed to be more complicated, and the result became bigger and bigger, bigger than other aces.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Spades A (Poker Face)