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My father taught me how to play poker when I was in kindergarten.
Recently I was teaching some friends to play and it was like they had never played a card game I was so frustrated but I didn't lose composure.
So we get the rules down pat and introduce chips just for fun. Until two of us had the same hand (pair of queens) and I had hearts, he had spades.
I explained to him that depending on the exact rules of where you're playing you either split the pot or the high suit (heart wins).
I then looked it up to show him I had won and found that spades beat hearts, which is not what I grew up with and I've played poker my whole life with dozens of people.

TL;DR
Rank the suits from highest to lowest, unfuck my shit up please

>Hearts
>Diamonds
>Clubs
>Spades

The only time the suit matters in poker is when someone gets a royal flush.

I've never had suit order matter unless it was in a specialty game with specific rules for that game on what suit beat what.

I most games I've played the same hand is just a split pot (assuming all kicker cards are the same as well).

You guys ever play a game called Neighbor? Worst shit ever I'm a caddy during the summer and all we fucking do is gamble.

I love craps though

>Ace of spades is the fanciest fucking card in the deck
>how could it not be the highest-value ace?
You played cards with idiots. This is standard across pretty much all card games, even if it's rarely invoked in poker.

>This is standard across pretty much all card games
No, it's really not.

Bridge (for bidding and scoring) and occasionally poker: spades, hearts, diamonds, clubs; 'notrump' ranks above all the suits

Preferans: hearts, diamonds, clubs, spades. Only used for bidding, and No Trump is considered higher than hearts.

Five Hundred: hearts, diamonds, clubs, spades (for bidding and scoring)

Ninety-nine: clubs, hearts, spades, diamonds (supposedly mnemonic as they have respectively 3, 2, 1, 0 lobes; see article for how this scoring is used)

Skat: clubs, spades, hearts, diamonds (for bidding and to determine which Jack beats which in play)

Big Two: spades, hearts, clubs, diamonds (Presidents and Arseholes reverses suit strength: hearts, diamonds, spades, clubs)

Teen patti: In the case where two players have flushes with cards of the same value, the winning hand is based on suit color as ranked by clubs, hearts, spades, diamonds.

Thirteen: Hearts, Diamonds, Clubs, Spades (in descending order).

>suits
>matter
They don't, at least either in classic hand poker, or in Texas Hold'em.
You split the pot when your hands are of the same value.

I assume your hands were ACTUALLY identical, because poker always prioritizes card value, even for extras. In that case, suits are irrelevant and you split the pot.

Also, there is no fixed suit strength. Most of the commonly played card games don't actually have a suit preference in the first place, but when they do, it depends entirely on the game.

Where would one play poker online without betting money or being unable to create closed lobbies?

If two players have the same hand, you go by the trash in the hand. So if one player has QQ987 and the other has QQ986, the one with the 7 wins.